Nora K. Jemisin Quotes Nora K. Jemisin Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended. After Ended Reconciliations Violence
Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on. Nora K. Jemisin
This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own. Nora K. Jemisin
There's a thriving field of self-published stuff in, particularly, black fiction. I don't know that other groups of people of color have that same recourse. Nora K. Jemisin
Readers seem to really like the fact that what I'm writing is not traditional fantasy. Nora K. Jemisin
It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small – a locked room-style story. Nora K. Jemisin
A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky. Nora K. Jemisin
As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change. Nora K. Jemisin
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. Nora K. Jemisin
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. Nora K. Jemisin
People come up to me sometimes and ask for a picture but don't even say hello. They sort of forget that I'm a person. Zac Brown
I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens. Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street – you live in Time Square, you know how they do it – they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues. B. B King
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