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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
It is ugly in this world, and when the killing starts, the same stick will beat the black dog and the white.
Nalo Hopkinson
She had a yearning to lose herself in this noisy throng of people going about the business of staying alive.
Nalo Hopkinson
Since Baby's birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.
Nalo Hopkinson
"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.
Nalo Hopkinson
Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.
Nalo Hopkinson
Children,” I said to her. "For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don't find?
Nalo Hopkinson
Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.
Nalo Hopkinson
This was a thing she'd not seen before, how the meat that fed her was a living being one minute and then violently dead. The smell of it was personal, inescapable, like the scent that rose in the steam from her own self when she stepped into a hot bath. They had broken open the animal's secret body just to eat it.
Nalo Hopkinson
Just being Tan-Tan, sometimes good, sometimes bad, mostly just getting by like everybody else.
Nalo Hopkinson
She curled up on the pallet and stared into the dark, praying for a peaceful sleep. Prayers didn't do no good, oui. Antonio chased her all night. (In the book Antonio, her father, beats and sexually abuses her long-term; she eventually kills him)
Nalo Hopkinson
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.
Nalo Hopkinson
She was hiding in the best possible way, masquerading as herself!
Nalo Hopkinson
Desire makes us all babies again.
Nalo Hopkinson
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?
Nalo Hopkinson
Every so often I come up with a different definition of what science fiction and fantasy do, and I'm always looking for one that describes what they both do, rather than separating them. Currently I'm saying that one of the things they do is look at the effects of large-scale social change on both populations and individuals. Fantasy tends to look to the past, and science fiction to the future, but what is common to many of the stories is change: huge societal upheaval.
Nalo Hopkinson
...There's still this notion that you are somehow morally superior if you don't know anything about the background of the writers you read, and I maintain that writers have every right to not talk their backgrounds, that's fine, but when people do and it's important to their work, to not know doesn't mean you're morally superior, it means you are indifferent...
Nalo Hopkinson
Mami,” Ti-Jeanne said, "I should go and get Baby. He ain't take to Tony.” "Hmph. Child got some sense, then. More than some I could name. But leave he there. He have to learn that he can't always have what he want.
Nalo Hopkinson