Top 100 Tomi Adeyemi Quotes (2026 Update)
Page 2 of 2

51. “We suffer so everyone else can smile.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

52. “Power is not the answer. It will only intensify the fight.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

53. “When your opponent has no honor, you must fight in different ways, smarter ways.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

54. “Please. I want to understand.” “You can’t. They built this world for you, built it to love you. They never cursed at you in the streets, never broke down the doors of.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

55. “Her advice lifts a weight from my shoulders that I should have never tried to carry at all.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

56. “As long as we don’t have magic, they will never treat us with respect. They need to know we can hit them back. If they burn our homes, we burn theirs, too.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

57. “Our lack of power and our oppression are one in the same...”

— Tomi Adeyemi

58. “But worst of all is the freckled girl. A Cancer. A harbinger of death. Dark green clouds of disease spew from her hands. With one breath, the soldiers’ bodies seize.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

59. “Mama used to say that in the beginning, white hair was a sign of the powers of heaven and earth. It held beauty and virtue and love, it meant we were blessed by the gods above.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

60. “You two. Even when you crash, you intertwine.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

61. “You should talk to someone. The jokes don’t help much, but talking does.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

62. “They hate what you were meant to become.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

63. “He’ll do the right thing when it’s easy, but when it matters most, he’ll stab you in the back. You can’t trust him, Amari. All he leaves us with are scars.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

64. “Our shadows bleed together like mixing paints, deep purples turning black with raw power. Our voices rise as the shadows take shape, condensing until they funnel into one giant arrowhead.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

65. “Mama had a face like the sun.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

66. “Count to ten,” I whisper to myself. “Count. To. Ten.” Becuase when I finish counting, this horror shall end.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

67. “They need to know we can hit them back. If they burn our homes, we burn theirs, too.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

68. “Even in the darkest times the gods are always there.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

69. “I didn’t know it was possible to fit so perfectly inside someone else’s arms.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

70. “I don’t know what shocks me more – the power in my voice or the words themselves.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

71. “Her spirit seems to hover around me, crashing with th force of the turbulent sea.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

72. “In that moment she appears so much younger than the world has allowed her to be.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

73. “When the elders built this place, it was only bare mountaintops.′ I look to the crowd. ‘It didn’t become a home because they filled it with towers. It became a home because they built it together. This land, these temples – they’re not what matters. As long as we have each other, we will carry Orisha in our veins. No one can ever take that away.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

74. “We’re the children of the gods.” I lift my chin. “If someone’s running away, it’s not going to be us.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

75. “You can’t enslave an entire people for the rebellion of a few.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

76. “A stunning dark-skinned goddess with vibrant blue eyes drops a single tear onto the world. As it lands, it explodes, creating oceans, lakes, streams.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

77. “But as our eyes meet, I realize he’s just like me; he carries Mama like the air, a passing thought of her in every breath.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

78. “I can’t even sell a fish without causing the destruction of my entire village. How am I supposed to be the maji’s only hope?”

— Tomi Adeyemi

79. “The gods don’t make mistakes.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

80. “And a piece of advice, little prince. Don’t put your life in my hands unless you want that life to end.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

81. “No chains bind me, but I can’t move. Crisp air fills my lungs, yet I can’t breathe.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

82. “Our heritage transformed into a thing to hate.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

83. “Despite all the pain he caused, I didn’t know how to breathe without my brother in this world.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

84. “Not like that,” Na’imah instructs, shaking her head so hard that a shower of orange flower petals fall from her curls. Dragonflies orbit her head as she repositions a maji’s hands around her cheetanaire’s temples. “Feel the connection.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

85. “Don’t... ′ His eyes fall closed. ‘Be sad.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

86. “I can’t go back to that world. I won’t survive that pain.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

87. “I release a breath I didn’t realize I was holding.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

88. “I’ve been a sheep. A sheep when my kingdom needed me to act like a king.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

89. “I wipe the crumbs from my lips, desperate to hide the fact that I’ve eaten my way through half the festival.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

90. “We’ve been led to this moment, pushed in the tiniest, most obscure ways.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

91. “Each would come to embody a different fragment of her soul.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

92. “He shrugs and brushes non-existent dirt off his shoulders.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

93. “The monarchy has magic now and they still hate us. It was never about magic at all!”

— Tomi Adeyemi

94. “You carry all of us in your heart. We shall live in every breath you take. Every incantation you speak. You are the children of the gods. You shall never be alone.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

95. “I teach the way of the staff to any girl who wants to learn, because in this world there will always be men who wish you harm.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

96. “Each symbol takes me back to another lesson, another story, another wisdom. I look at Mama, waiting. Is this a gift or what she’ll use to beat me?”

— Tomi Adeyemi

97. “We may have triumphed, but this is no victory.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

98. “I TRY NOT to think of him. But when I do, I hear the tides.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

99. “Let them taste the terror they make us swallow.”

— Tomi Adeyemi

100. “But in Binta’s hands, magic is mesmerizing, a wonder like no other. The joy of the summer sun melting into twilight. The very essence and breath of –.”

— Tomi Adeyemi