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Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

Nora K. Jemisin

I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so.

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I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.

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It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

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I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.

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I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because they're dangerous.

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There's a tendency in American thought – maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best – to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.

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All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish.

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Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy.

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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.

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Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

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A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky.

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