Top 33 Nalo Hopkinson Quotes
#1. So much history behind and between people, one moment was always a nasty echo of another time, most of who you were already scripted.
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#2. They are me, these women. They are the ones who taught me to see; I taught me to see. They, we, are the ones healing the Ginen story, fighting to destroy that cancerous trade in shiploads of African bodies that ever demands to be fed more sugar, more rum, more Nubian gold.
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#3. I've learned now to have a second title in reserve because, frequently, I come up with titles that seem to make editors' hair fall out.
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#4. When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you'd best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.
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#5. She calls herself Fleet 'cause she used to be a flute player, back in the day. BC, you know?"
"British Colombia?"
He looked sad. "No, Before Crack.
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#7. When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.
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#8. I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.
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#9. I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.
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#10. I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.
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#11. I wanted to believe that Makandal flew away, but my wishes can't fly freely so. They're rooted to the ground like me, who eats salt.
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#12. I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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#13. Mister Pierre was finally looking at the baby's body. "A boy? Why aren't you two lackwits seeing to my child?" There had been women's voices in this room all these long hours. Mister Pierre's booming was like sudden thunder during a soft rain.
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#14. Why? Because I played god with you? Baby girl, that's what I do. And not lightly, either." He thought about that for a second. "Well, yes, sometimes lightly. You know what they say about all work and no play.
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#15. How can ya think 'bout economics feelin' like . . . this?" "Not many people can," Ron said. "That's the Lll's protection.
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#16. Even she hair itself rough and wiry; long black knotty locks springing from she scalp and corkscrewing all the way down she back ...
The only thing soft about Tan-Tan is she big molasses-brown eyes that could look on you, and your heart would beat time ...
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#17. In the back of my mind's eye, everything had a fuzzy green haze on it, like a brand-new tennis ball. The world was getting its Shine on.
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#18. We do not know a planet that is home. We are always home. It is our job to see and map and learn languages and stories and carry them from place to place.
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#19. So there's a freeing up that happens when I can go into that storytelling mode ... It isn't about how much sense you make, it is about how compelling you are.
(interview)
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#20. I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call quickly. One challenge is that breaking science fiction means, well, breaking science fiction. Many communities of colour have a different approach to narratives of science.
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#21. Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.
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#22. Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.
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#23. You folk are so finicky about time, living it in straight lines like that.
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#24. I am Amaxon Corazon Junia Principia Delgado the Third, and I bent over my meal and wept luxurious tears into my green banana porridge. It was a perfect decoction, and it now would not satisfy me.
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#25. I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
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#26. I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.
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#27. I'm going to check the world's best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn't even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.
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#28. Do not ask your future, or you will forget to live in your present.
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#29. I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.
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#30. The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.
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#31. Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.
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#32. So I don't see the theme of the story as nature versus science. I see it as a conflict between demanding and understanding, between the kinds of labor that our society values or doesn't value, "innovators" versus "maintainers." It's
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#33. How you mean, 'doughnut hole'?" Ti-Jeanne had asked. "That's what they call it when an inner city collapses and people run to the suburbs," he'd answered.
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