Nalo Hopkinson Quotes

Nalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born Canadian speculative fiction writer and editor. She currently lives and teaches in Riverside, California. Her novels and short stories such as those in her collection Skin Folk often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.

Hopkinson has edited two fiction anthologies . She was the co-editor with Uppinder Mehan for the anthology So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future, and with Geoff Ryman for Tesseracts 9.

Hopkinson defended George Elliott Clarke's novel Whylah Falls on the CBC's Canada Reads 2002. She was the curator of Six Impossible Things, an audio series of Canadian fantastical fiction on CBC Radio One. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. December 1960

Works

Midnight Robber
Midnight Robber
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Brown Girl in the Ring
Brown Girl in the Ring
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The Salt Roads
The Salt Roads
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Famous Nalo Hopkinson Quotes

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

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 13 (p. 230)

“Desire makes us all babies again.”

Source: The Salt Roads (2003), p. 180

Nalo Hopkinson Quotes about people

Nalo Hopkinson Quotes about the world

“…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 happening in the real world.””

And those of us who live in racialized bodies feel that lack, we feel that erasure, so yes, there was something quite deliberate in my doing half the speech as an alien.
On race still being a taboo topic in the world of science fiction in “Interview: Nalo Hopkinson” http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/interview-nalo-hopkinson/ in Lightspeed (June 2013)

Nalo Hopkinson Quotes

“Children,” I said to her. “For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don’t find?”

Source: The New Moon's Arms (2007), Chapter 4 (p. 192)

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

Section 4 (p. 314)
Midnight Robber (2000)

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