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Nalo Hopkinson Quotes

born 1960 Jamaica

Nalo Hopkinson (born 1960) is a Jamaican science fiction and fantasy writer and editor who lives in Canada.

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Just being Tan-Tan, sometimes good, sometimes bad, mostly just getting by like everybody else.

Midnight Robber (2000)

It is ugly in this world, and when the killing starts, the same stick will beat the black dog and the white.

The Salt Roads (2003)

She just wanted to be somewhere safe, somewhere familiar, where people looked and spoke like her and she could stand to eat the food.

Midnight Robber (2000)

I don’t pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn’t try to convince you that salt was sugar.

The New Moon's Arms (2007)

Lasirèn, pray you a quick death for Hopping John. Pray you no more of this life for him. Even though no gods answer black people’s prayers here in this place.

The Salt Roads (2003)

All the people sick and dead on the ships, and the ones sick and dead on this soil. What are gods for, then, if they let things like this to happen to their people?

The Salt Roads (2003)

Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.

Midnight Robber (2000)

She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.

Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)

Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.

Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)

It’s the beautiful thing about being a fiction writer; you can write the world you want to see.

The Queer Caribbean Speaks edited by Kofi Omoniyi Sylvanus Campbell (2014)

Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.

The New Moon's Arms (2007)

She was hiding in the best possible way, masquerading as herself!

Midnight Robber (2000)

“I can’t keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain’t? I have to decide what I want to do for myself.” No answer. It wasn’t going to tell her.

Brown Girl in the Ring (1998)

Desire makes us all babies again.

The Salt Roads (2003)

In the fantastical genres there is an idea that the world can change. And that to me is immensely hopeful.

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time. (p179)

Sister Mine (2013)

Write whatever the blast you want, and if you live in an environment where doing so doesn't endanger your life or career, count yourself blessed.

collected in Conversations with Nalo Hopkinson (1999)

Suck all the juice this life will give! (p33)

Sister Mine (2013)

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.

It was time to be honest with myself. To survive all the shame this world will throw at you, you have to hold yourself tall, look your accuser straight in the eye. Even if it’s your own face looking back at you.

The New Moon's Arms (2007)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nalo Hopkinson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.