Quotes by Nalo Hopkinson

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

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

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

“The metaphors we use in the west come from Greek and European mythology. Aishu in West African religious mythology is the deity I use in Midnight Robber. Aishu said: I would like to go everywhere a...”

“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.”

“Writers have to live in more than two worlds. The intellectual life of the Caribbean was available to me when I was growing up, through my parents, but being a science fiction and fantasy reader wa...”

“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 ...”

“…Even though we talk about race a lot in the literature, there’s still this idea of Well, if we make this person blue and give them pointy ears, then we don’t have to actually talk about what’s hap...”

“…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 th...”