“There is a strange emptiness to life without myths. I am African American — by which I mean, a descendant of slaves, rather than a descendant of immigrants who came here willingly and with lives more or less intact. My… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Throughout my life as I’ve sought to become a published writer of speculative fiction, my strongest detractors and discouragers have been other African Americans. These were people who had, like generations before them, bought into the mythology of racism: black… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Some say the Earth is angry Because he wants no company; I say the Earth is angry Because he lives alone.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“She feels closer than ever to her father in this moment of utter broken rage.” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“When a comm builds atop a fault line, do you blame its walls when they inevitably crush the people inside? No; you blame whoever was stupid enough to think they could defy the laws of nature forever. Well, some worlds are built on a fault line of pain, held up by nightmares. Don’t lament when those worlds fall. Rage that… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share
“I don’t know how I feel about a canon anymore ... The sheer volume of books that exist out there means that a canon… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“[...] the kind of healer who knows that sometimes one must inflict terrible agony - rebreak a bone, carve off a limb, kill the… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all,… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?” — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“You waver, because you don’t really want to know … but you haven’t been a coward for some years now. So you steel yourself… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“What can orogeny do against something like that? Keep her breathing, maybe. But breathing doesn't always mean living, and maybe... maybe genocide doesn't always… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“What the rust do you matter? Who cares about you? Well, that’s the thing, isn’t it? Once, you did have people who cared about… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
“Let me say only that these vehicles float a few inches off the ground. No animals draw them. No steam or chemical fuels them.… — N.K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
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