Nalo Hopkinson idézet

Nalo Hopkinson jamaicai születésű sci-fi-író. Kanadában él.

✵ 20. december 1960
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Nalo Hopkinson: Idézetek angolul

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

Nalo Hopkinson könyv Brown Girl in the Ring

Forrás: Brown Girl in the Ring

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

Nalo Hopkinson könyv Brown Girl in the Ring

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

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

Nalo Hopkinson könyv Brown Girl in the Ring

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

“Desire makes us all babies again.”

Nalo Hopkinson könyv The Salt Roads

Forrás: The Salt Roads (2003), p. 180

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

Nalo Hopkinson könyv Midnight Robber

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

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

Nalo Hopkinson könyv Midnight Robber

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

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

Nalo Hopkinson könyv Midnight Robber

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

“…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)