Nora K. Jemisin Quotes

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.

Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

I write what feels real. I write things that are informed both by my own experience and by actual history.

Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.

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.

When I start a new novel, I often write 'test chapters' in different tenses and from different points of view in order to figure out which is best to tell the tale.

I read a lot of history for fun.

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

With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

I've always believed that as an artist, as a writer, you need a lot of contact with other people to make your art good.

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

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I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.

Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

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