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P. Djèlí Clark QUOTES

1 " There were two brothers, Truth and Lie. One day they get to playing, throwing cutlasses up into the air. Them cutlasses come down and fast as can be-swish!-chop each of their faces clean off! Truth bed down, searching for his face. But with no eyes, he can't see. Lie, he sneaky. He snatch up Truth's face and run off! Zip! Now Lie go around wearing Truth's face, fooling everybody he meet. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , Ring Shout

2 " Djinn. Ghuls. Sorcerers. Never had to worry about this in my grandfather's day. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)

3 " I don’t have sad tales to tell you. I’m not some tragic character from a story, lost between two worlds. I revel in who I am. What I am. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

4 " The three of them sat there - A Ministry agent, a half-djinn, and a cat (likely), staring out past the balcony to the sleeping city they somehow had to find a way to save. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

5 " Girl, every choice we make is a new tomorrow. Whole worlds waiting to be born. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , Ring Shout

6 " And her father always said if people were going to stare, you should give them a show. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)

7 " Reason and law don’t mean much when white folk want their way. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , Ring Shout

8 " You! You can’t just walk in here! This is a crime scene!” “That would explain the dead bodies, then,” she replied. He blinked dumbly, and she sighed. Wasting good sarcasm was annoying. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

9 " You see, the hate they give is senseless. They already got power. Yet they hate those over who they got control, who don’t really pose a threat to them. Their fears aren’t real—just insecurities and inadequacies. Deep down they know that. Makes their hate like … watered-down whiskey. Now your people! "

― P. Djèlí Clark , Ring Shout

10 " Why is everyone so slavish to texts written thousands of years ago?” he snapped. “Gods can change. Grow apart. Try new things. Besides, Set was a jerk. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

11 " Devil wouldn’t be the devil if he didn’t know how to tempt. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , Ring Shout

12 " My grandpappy say when we die, we get our wings back, the ones white folk cut off when we come here. Maybe I’ll fly and meet my mama. Or all the way back to Africy. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , Ring Shout

13 " She looked closer at the object she’d mistaken for a bookmark—a length of metallic silver tinged with hints of bright mandarin. She picked it up, holding it aloft as it glinted in the gas lamps’ glare.

Aasim cursed, his voice going hoarse. “Is that what I think it is?”

Fatma nodded. It was a metallic feather, as long as her forearm. Along its surface, faint lines of fiery script moved and writhed about as if alive.

“Holy tongue,” Aasim breathed.

“Holy tongue,” she confirmed.

“But that means it belongs to . . .”

“An angel, ” Fatma finished for him.

Her frown deepened. Now what in the many worlds, she wondered, would a djinn be doing with one of these? "

― P. Djèlí Clark , A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)

14 " Power to protect. Power to avenge. Power over the life and death of my people. When colored folk ever had anyone offer us so much? When we ever had the power not to be scared no more? Ain’t we been suffering and dying all this time, at the hands of monsters in human form? What difference then if we make a pact with some other monsters? What we owe this world that so despises and brutalizes us? Why lift a hand to save it when it ain’t never done a damn thing to save us? "

― P. Djèlí Clark , Ring Shout

15 " And among His wonders is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the diversity of your tongues and colors. For in this, behold, there are messages indeed for all who are possessed of innate knowledge. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

16 " Fighting it has to be like trying to push back a flood. In my head, Oya laughs. You can run from those old Afrikin goddesses. But they find you when they ready. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , The Black God's Drums

17 " Even now, you fail to grasp the strength of my conviction.” And with those last words, he plunged the three blades through his body—one stabbing into his chest, a second ripping apart the armor surrounding his heart, and a third sliding through the metallic links of his neck. Bright fluid like the blood of a star poured from the wounds. He swayed, then toppled to crash upon the ground and was still.

“Well, that was unexpected,” Siti remarked. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , A Dead Djinn in Cairo (Dead Djinn Universe, #0.1)

18 " Usually the secrets we keep deep down, ain’t meant to hurt other people,” he said. “Not saying they won’t, but not through intentions. Those deep secrets, we hide away because we’re afraid what other people might think. How they might judge us, if they knew. And nobody’s judgment we scared of more than the one we give our hearts to. Besides, everybody got secrets. Even you, I’m betting. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , A Master of Djinn (Dead Djinn Universe, #1)

19 " We the trickster—the spider, the rabbit, even the fox. We fool those stronger than us. That’s how we survive. Watch out you don’t get tricked yo’self! "

― P. Djèlí Clark , Ring Shout

20 " White folk don’t care ’bout pepper and spices. Like they food bland as water. "

― P. Djèlí Clark , Ring Shout