Nalo Hopkinson: Quotes about the world

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“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

Source: The New Moon's Arms (2007), Chapter 2 (p. 72)

“…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.””

Nalo Hopkinson

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. <br class="br">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)

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

Nalo Hopkinson book The Salt Roads

Source: The Salt Roads (2003), p. 377