Nalo Hopkinson Quotes

• Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Hands, Perfection, Beats

  Nalo Hopkinson (2013). “Sister Mine”, p.110, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Style, Stories, Engagement

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Stories, World

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• 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.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  People, Fiction, Literature

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

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Mind, Trying, Sugar

  "The New Moon's Arms". Book by Nalo Hopkinson, 2007.

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• My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white people and no one else, he wonders when the race war happened that wiped out the majority of the human race, and why the writer hasn’t mentioned such an important plot point.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  War, Race, White

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

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Children, Animal, Groups

  "The New Moon's Arms". Book by Nalo Hopkinson, 2007.

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• I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what that means when the story is set somewhere where more than one belief system is in operation. If all you do is pay lip service to it, you can get the kind of thing where the writer has thrown one Hindu god into a Christianist fantasy (rendering said god by default a demon or otherwise inferior to the dominant religious system of the story, which is such an insult), and the hero is able to vanquish it by chanting a spell in church Latin.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Christian, Religious, Latin

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• When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Demigods, Elders

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• 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.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Mean, People, Community

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• 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.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Urban Legends, World, Internet

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