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Nalo Hopkinson, née le 20 décembre 1960 à Kingston en Jamaïque, est une romancière canadienne d'origine jamaïcaine de science-fiction et de fantasy. Elle a obtenu le prix Locus du meilleur premier roman en 1999 pour La Ronde des esprits ainsi que le prix World Fantasy du meilleur recueil de nouvelles en 2002 pour Skin Folk. Wikipedia  

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Nalo Hopkinson: Citations en anglais

“The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”

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Nalo Hopkinson livre Brown Girl in the Ring

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring

“Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness.”

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Nalo Hopkinson livre Brown Girl in the Ring

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 13 (p. 232)

““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.”

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Nalo Hopkinson livre Brown Girl in the Ring

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 12 (p. 220)

““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.””

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Nalo Hopkinson livre Brown Girl in the Ring

Source: Brown Girl in the Ring (1998), Chapter 4 (p. 62)

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

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Nalo Hopkinson livre Brown Girl in the Ring

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

“Desire makes us all babies again.”

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Nalo Hopkinson livre The Salt Roads

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

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

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

“Come in peace to my home, Tan-Tan. And when you go, go in friendship.”

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Nalo Hopkinson livre Midnight Robber

Section 4 (p. 179)
Midnight Robber (2000)

“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.”

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Nalo Hopkinson livre Midnight Robber

Section 2 (p. 104)
Midnight Robber (2000)

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

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Source: The New Moon's Arms (2007), Chapter 4 (p. 191)

“She just wanted to be somewhere safe, somewhere familiar, where people looked and spoke like her and she could stand to eat the food.”

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Nalo Hopkinson livre Midnight Robber

Section 4 (p. 217)
Midnight Robber (2000)

“Just being Tan-Tan, sometimes good, sometimes bad, mostly just getting by like everybody else.”

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Nalo Hopkinson livre Midnight Robber

Section 4 (p. 326)
Midnight Robber (2000)

“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)”

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Nalo Hopkinson livre Midnight Robber

Section 4 (p. 222)
Midnight Robber (2000)

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

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Source: The New Moon's Arms (2007), Chapter 1 (p. 40)

“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.”

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

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

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Nalo Hopkinson livre Midnight Robber

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

“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?”

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Nalo Hopkinson livre The Salt Roads

Source: The Salt Roads (2003), p. 66

“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.”

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On her comparing of science fiction and fantasy in “Nalo Hopkinson: Multiplicity” https://www.locusmag.com/2007/Issue06_Hopkinson.html in LocusMag (June 2007)

“…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…”

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On the author having the right to reveal anything personal that’s significant to them in “Interview: Nalo Hopkinson” http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/nonfiction/interview-nalo-hopkinson/ in Lightspeed (June 2013)

“…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.””

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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)

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

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Nalo Hopkinson livre The Salt Roads

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