There's so much talk of representation in politics and entertainment - it's everywhere - but I didn't realize representation was important until really my senior year of high school.
Tomi AdeyemiRead
You're never wasting your time as long as you learn from every single thing you do, whether you feel like those attempts are successful or not.
Interpretation
Learning from every experience is valuable, regardless of the perceived success.
This quote emphasizes the importance of gaining knowledge from each experience we encounter in life. It suggests that success is not merely defined by outcomes, but by the lessons learned through our efforts, whether they result in achievement or not.
In practice
In a motivational speech about perseverance, one might use this quote to encourage the audience to embrace failure as a learning opportunity.
There's so much talk of representation in politics and entertainment - it's everywhere - but I didn't realize representation was important until really my senior year of high school.
I want a little black girl to pick up my book one day and see herself as the star. I want her to know that she's beautiful, and she matters, and she can have a crazy, magical adventure even if an ignorant part of the world tells her she can never be Hermione Granger.
The power of fantasy is that you can make people understand the deeper realities of our world in a way that they wouldn't normally be able to because of all the things in our world that closes them off.
For readers of color, and especially black readers, black girls, I just want them to feel seen. And not just seen - I want them to feel epic and know that they are epic.
I had a lot of different reasons for writing the book, but at its core was the desire to write for black teenage girls growing up reading books they were absent from. That was my experience as a child. 'Children of Blood and Bone' is a chance to address that. To say you are seen.
What's demanded from us black creatives is both a blessing and a curse, because it pushes you to be your absolute best. You cannot be anything less.
Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.
Listen carefully, my child, to your master's precepts, and incline the ear of your heart. Receive willingly and carry out effectively your loving father's advice, that by the labor of obedience you may return to Him from whom you had departed by the sloth of disobedience.
My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold.
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it
There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
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