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Sugar Cream is one of the most respected figures in Leopard Knocks. She’s a fourth-level scholar and is the Head Librarian of the Obi Library, a great honor. Sugar Cream is an elderly woman with severe scoliosis, and her natural ability is to transform into a snake. As she explains to Sunny, she got her name as a toddler, when the man who ultimately raised her lured her out of the forest with milky, sugary tea. In addition to running the library and punishing misbehaving students, Sugar Cream is also a skilled Nsibidi reader and author who wrote the Nsibidi book that Sunny purchases and learns to read. Sunny learns when she gets in trouble that Sugar Cream is considering mentoring her. But because Sugar Cream prizes intelligence and sensibility (and because she sees Sunny’s choice to terrify a Lamb classmate with her spirit face as neither intelligent nor sensible), Sugar Cream holds out on making her decision to mentor Sunny until the end of the novel.
Sugar Cream Quotes in Akata Witch
The Akata Witch quotes below are all either spoken by Sugar Cream or refer to Sugar Cream. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 4
Quotes
“Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything.
“Leopard People are different. The only way you can earn chittim is by learning. The more you learn, the more chittim you earn. Knowledge is the center of all things. The Head Librarian of the Obi Library of Leopard Knocks is the keeper of the greatest stock of knowledge in West Africa.”
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Chapter 10
Quotes
“Listen. It was your grandmother, Ozoemena, who taught Otokoto all he knows. She was his mentor. And it was Otokoto who killed your grandmother in a ritual to steal her abilities as he stole her life. You want to know why he is so powerful? All you need to look at is who your grandmother was and who Otokoto was before he became the infamous Black Hat.”
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Sugar Cream Quotes in Akata Witch
The Akata Witch quotes below are all either spoken by Sugar Cream or refer to Sugar Cream. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 4
Quotes
“Money and material things make you king or queen of the Lamb world. You can do no wrong, you can do anything.
“Leopard People are different. The only way you can earn chittim is by learning. The more you learn, the more chittim you earn. Knowledge is the center of all things. The Head Librarian of the Obi Library of Leopard Knocks is the keeper of the greatest stock of knowledge in West Africa.”
Related Characters:
Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 10
Quotes
“Listen. It was your grandmother, Ozoemena, who taught Otokoto all he knows. She was his mentor. And it was Otokoto who killed your grandmother in a ritual to steal her abilities as he stole her life. You want to know why he is so powerful? All you need to look at is who your grandmother was and who Otokoto was before he became the infamous Black Hat.”
