41 Quotes by Nalo Hopkinson

I’d like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.

Chief Gray of the Osage Nation said, “Today, our neighbors are beginning to understand that when tribes are strong, everyone benefits. A rising tide lifts all boats. This has been done, not on the white man’s terms, but on our own. It’s not revenge, it’s rebirth, and as our elders say, it is good.” This.

I’m looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn’t see enough of.

How you mean, ‘doughnut hole’?” Ti-Jeanne had asked. “That’s what they call it when an inner city collapses and people run to the suburbs,” he’d answered.

When I was fifteen and trying to show my independence by getting careless with my diet, my parents took me to a Duryea-Gode disease ward. They wanted me to see, they said, where I was headed if I wasn’t careful. In fact, it was where I was headed no matter what. It was only a matter of when: now or later. My parents were putting in their vote for later.

Suck all the juice this life will give!

We do not know a planet that is home. We are always home. It is our job to see and map and learn languages and stories and carry them from place to place.

I wanted to believe that Makandal flew away, but my wishes can’t fly freely so. They’re rooted to the ground like me, who eats salt.

We are all here, all the powers of the Ginen lives for all the centuries that they have been in existence, and we all fight. We change when change is needed. We are a little different in each place that the Ginen have come to rest, and any one of is already many powers. No cancer can fell us all, no blight cover us completely.