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Highlights
I am not a follower, but there are times when all you can do is follow.
<Binti: The Night Masquerade>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 15 | Location 98-99 2020-07-20 01:28:57
“You try too hard to be everything, please everyone. Himba, Meduse, Enyi Zinariya, Khoush ambassador. You can’t. You’re a harmonizer. We bring peace because we are stable, simple, clear. What have you brought since you came back to Earth, Binti?”
<Binti: The Night Masquerade>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 23 | Location 201-203 2020-07-20 11:24:15
“You thought we were savages. You were raised to believe that, even though your own father was one of us. You know why. And now I’m sitting here telling you how I learned I was a harmonizer and you’re so stuck on lies that you’d rather sit here wondering if I’m a spirit than question what you’ve been taught.”
<Binti: The Night Masquerade>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 35 | Location 351-353 2020-07-20 11:31:47
The type of harmonizer one was depended on one’s teacher’s worldview; I rolled this realization around in my mind as I just stared at him.
<Binti: The Night Masquerade>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 37 | Location 375-376 2020-07-20 11:33:21
The people here preferred to venture inward rather than out. Because what was within was already a million times more advanced, more modern, than anything on the planet.
<Binti: The Night Masquerade>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 39 | Location 396-397 2020-07-21 00:30:40
“When elephants fight, the grass suffers.”
<Binti: The Night Masquerade>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 55 | Location 587-588 2020-07-21 11:11:31
“A bird who has flown off the earth and then returns to land is still on the land,” it said. “Remove your shoes and listen.”
<Binti: The Night Masquerade>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 57 | Location 612-613 2020-07-21 11:13:19
“What reason does a man have to be beautiful?” Chief Kapika asked as he watched me spread the leaf on the dry dirt. “Beauty does not need a reason,” Okwu responded.
<Binti: The Night Masquerade>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 67 | Location 737-739 2020-07-21 11:20:18
“I was not leaving my family, my people, or my culture. I wanted to add to it all. I was born to go to that school and when I got there, even after everything that happened, that became even clearer. I fit right into Oomza Uni.
<Binti: The Night Masquerade>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 80 | Location 902-903 2020-07-22 00:33:49
I was always going out into the desert. You know? Because it’s huge, it’s vast. When I look back, the desert and space, they feel similar.” “Well, I was always meant to go inward, into what makes us us,” he said. “And that’s just as vast. And doing that will make me the next chief, not get us destroyed.”
<Binti: The Night Masquerade>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 85 | Location 961-964 2020-07-22 00:38:25
The way people on Oomza Uni were so diverse and everyone handled that as if it were normal continued to surprise me. It was so unlike Earth, where wars were fought over and because of differences and most couldn’t relate to anyone unless they were similar.
<Binti: The Night Masquerade>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 102 | Location 1174-1176 2020-07-22 13:51:15
A tree with strong roots laughs at storms.
<Binti: The Night Masquerade>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 130 | Location 1492-1493 2020-07-23 01:26:22
Even back then I had changed things, and I didn’t even know it. When I should have reveled in this gift, instead, I’d seen myself as broken. But couldn’t you be broken and still bring change?
<Binti: The Night Masquerade>(Okorafor, Nnedi) Highlight on page 149 | Location 1719-1722 2020-07-24 00:59:45