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Top 20 Mat Johnson Quotes (2025 Update)

Mat Johnson Quote: “A man’s daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world.”

1. “A man’s daughter is his heart. Just with feet, walking out in the world.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “TEKELI-LI. Tekeli-li, Tekeli-li. I got that from Pym. I got that from Poe. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe, specifically. Pym that is maddening, Pym that is brilliance, Pym whose failures entice instead of repel. Pym that flows and ignites and Pym that becomes so entrenched it stagnates for hundreds of words at a time. A book that at points makes no sense, gets wrong both history and science, and yet stumbles into an emotional truth greater than both.”

2. “TEKELI-LI. Tekeli-li, Tekeli-li. I got that from Pym. I got that from Poe. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe, specifically. Pym that is maddening, Pym that is brilliance, Pym whose failures entice instead of repel. Pym that flows and ignites and Pym that becomes so entrenched it stagnates for hundreds of words at a time. A book that at points makes no sense, gets wrong both history and science, and yet stumbles into an emotional truth greater than both.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “People aren’t social. They’re tribal. Race doesn’t exist, but tribes are real.”

3. “People aren’t social. They’re tribal. Race doesn’t exist, but tribes are real.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “The sociopaths – that’s the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can’t find you.”

4. “The sociopaths – that’s the real problem. The whole street demeanor is about pretending to be a sociopath as well so that the real ones can’t find you.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don’t know if that matters.”

5. “For some reason, people always assign high cheekbones to some ethnicity, but apparently by their regards, everybody on earth has high cheekbones. So I don’t know if that matters.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “I look white to a lot of people. And I’m not. I’m African-American. I’m mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because that definition fits. So, you know, I’ve dealt with the conflict my whole life between how I look and my actual ethnic and racial identity.”

6. “I look white to a lot of people. And I’m not. I’m African-American. I’m mixed. I like to call myself Mulatto because that definition fits. So, you know, I’ve dealt with the conflict my whole life between how I look and my actual ethnic and racial identity.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “I love the idea of biracial. I actually don’t use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates the word race, and, you know, I don’t really care for it.”

7. “I love the idea of biracial. I actually don’t use the word biracial. I tend to use mixed. Biracial to me accentuates the word race, and, you know, I don’t really care for it.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “I have found that, in the African American oral tradition, if the words are enunciated eloquently enough, no one examines the meaning for definitive truth.”

8. “I have found that, in the African American oral tradition, if the words are enunciated eloquently enough, no one examines the meaning for definitive truth.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear, and even more dissipates. I want to be scared while writing. I want to bring it to the surface so I can banish it.”

9. “I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear, and even more dissipates. I want to be scared while writing. I want to bring it to the surface so I can banish it.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “Every misogynist came out of a woman.”

10. “Every misogynist came out of a woman.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “Everybody just gets on my nerves after like, 10 minutes, you know.”

11. “Everybody just gets on my nerves after like, 10 minutes, you know.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “My strong suit is that I’ve been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting.”

12. “My strong suit is that I’ve been willing to risk on the page to get somewhere interesting.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “I’ve been writing forever, 20 years.”

13. “I’ve been writing forever, 20 years.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “People look at interracial couples through their own, distorting racial lens. It doesn’t matter what form they take.”

14. “People look at interracial couples through their own, distorting racial lens. It doesn’t matter what form they take.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book.”

15. “My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “In this age when reality is built on big lies, what better place for truth than fiction?”

16. “In this age when reality is built on big lies, what better place for truth than fiction?”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “I’m really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything’s going to be great.”

17. “I’m really suspicious of anybody who comes in and says, this is your identity now, or this is your belief system, and now that you have this, everything’s going to be great.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “Forgiveness comes later in life, after you’ve created enough disasters of your own.”

18. “Forgiveness comes later in life, after you’ve created enough disasters of your own.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.”

19. “Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “Some people age, and some just dehydrate.”

20. “Some people age, and some just dehydrate.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “I was participating in something horrible, and my only defense is that I was motivated by my own fear, which of course is no defense at all.”

21. “I was participating in something horrible, and my only defense is that I was motivated by my own fear, which of course is no defense at all.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “It is a great moment in every freak’s life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.”

22. “It is a great moment in every freak’s life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.”

— Mat Johnson

Mat Johnson Quote: “I was a boy that age once, and I know that 97.7 percent of their bodies are semen and the 2.8 percent is an incendiary device for spraying it.”

23. “I was a boy that age once, and I know that 97.7 percent of their bodies are semen and the 2.8 percent is an incendiary device for spraying it.”

— Mat Johnson

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