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Top 20 Nalo Hopkinson Quotes (2025 Update)

Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”

1. “Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “I don’t pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn’t try to convince you that salt was sugar.”

2. “I don’t pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn’t try to convince you that salt was sugar.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “Suck all the juice this life will give!”

3. “Suck all the juice this life will give!”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “I’d like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.”

4. “I’d like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “Chief Gray of the Osage Nation said, “Today, our neighbors are beginning to understand that when tribes are strong, everyone benefits. A rising tide lifts all boats. This has been done, not on the white man’s terms, but on our own. It’s not revenge, it’s rebirth, and as our elders say, it is good.” This.”

5. “Chief Gray of the Osage Nation said, “Today, our neighbors are beginning to understand that when tribes are strong, everyone benefits. A rising tide lifts all boats. This has been done, not on the white man’s terms, but on our own. It’s not revenge, it’s rebirth, and as our elders say, it is good.” This.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.”

6. “Children were pack animals; let any one of them act different from the group, and the rest would bring him down.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.”

7. “When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.”

8. “I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “How you mean, ‘doughnut hole’?” Ti-Jeanne had asked. “That’s what they call it when an inner city collapses and people run to the suburbs,” he’d answered.”

9. “How you mean, ‘doughnut hole’?” Ti-Jeanne had asked. “That’s what they call it when an inner city collapses and people run to the suburbs,” he’d answered.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “We do not know a planet that is home. We are always home. It is our job to see and map and learn languages and stories and carry them from place to place.”

10. “We do not know a planet that is home. We are always home. It is our job to see and map and learn languages and stories and carry them from place to place.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “Do not ask your future, or you will forget to live in your present.”

11. “Do not ask your future, or you will forget to live in your present.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.”

12. “When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “We are all here, all the powers of the Ginen lives for all the centuries that they have been in existence, and we all fight. We change when change is needed. We are a little different in each place that the Ginen have come to rest, and any one of is already many powers. No cancer can fell us all, no blight cover us completely.”

13. “We are all here, all the powers of the Ginen lives for all the centuries that they have been in existence, and we all fight. We change when change is needed. We are a little different in each place that the Ginen have come to rest, and any one of is already many powers. No cancer can fell us all, no blight cover us completely.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call quickly. One challenge is that breaking science fiction means, well, breaking science fiction. Many communities of colour have a different approach to narratives of science.”

14. “I tried to get the word out to people who are information hubs in their communities, because they could propagate the call quickly. One challenge is that breaking science fiction means, well, breaking science fiction. Many communities of colour have a different approach to narratives of science.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “When I was fifteen and trying to show my independence by getting careless with my diet, my parents took me to a Duryea-Gode disease ward. They wanted me to see, they said, where I was headed if I wasn’t careful. In fact, it was where I was headed no matter what. It was only a matter of when: now or later. My parents were putting in their vote for later.”

15. “When I was fifteen and trying to show my independence by getting careless with my diet, my parents took me to a Duryea-Gode disease ward. They wanted me to see, they said, where I was headed if I wasn’t careful. In fact, it was where I was headed no matter what. It was only a matter of when: now or later. My parents were putting in their vote for later.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “I made myself listen to the birds singing squabbles and love songs. Occasionally I heard a war. Sharp mechanical sounds clashed with the nature music. Bells and whistles mashed together in nagging bursts. My new life was calling. I had to get on with it. Body historians, griots of the galaxy, we didn’t diddle ourselves in jungle paradises, we inhabited flesh to gather a genealogy of life. We sought the story behind all the stories.”

16. “I made myself listen to the birds singing squabbles and love songs. Occasionally I heard a war. Sharp mechanical sounds clashed with the nature music. Bells and whistles mashed together in nagging bursts. My new life was calling. I had to get on with it. Body historians, griots of the galaxy, we didn’t diddle ourselves in jungle paradises, we inhabited flesh to gather a genealogy of life. We sought the story behind all the stories.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “They are me, these women. They are the ones who taught me to see; I taught me to see. They, we, are the ones healing the Ginen story, fighting to destroy that cancerous trade in shiploads of African bodies that ever demands to be fed more sugar, more rum, more Nubian gold.”

17. “They are me, these women. They are the ones who taught me to see; I taught me to see. They, we, are the ones healing the Ginen story, fighting to destroy that cancerous trade in shiploads of African bodies that ever demands to be fed more sugar, more rum, more Nubian gold.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “I’m looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn’t see enough of.”

18. “I’m looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn’t see enough of.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “Mister Pierre was finally looking at the baby’s body. “A boy? Why aren’t you two lackwits seeing to my child?” There had been women’s voices in this room all these long hours. Mister Pierre’s booming was like sudden thunder during a soft rain.”

19. “Mister Pierre was finally looking at the baby’s body. “A boy? Why aren’t you two lackwits seeing to my child?” There had been women’s voices in this room all these long hours. Mister Pierre’s booming was like sudden thunder during a soft rain.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “I wanted to believe that Makandal flew away, but my wishes can’t fly freely so. They’re rooted to the ground like me, who eats salt.”

20. “I wanted to believe that Makandal flew away, but my wishes can’t fly freely so. They’re rooted to the ground like me, who eats salt.”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “What are gods for, then, if they let things like this to happen to their people?”

21. “What are gods for, then, if they let things like this to happen to their people?”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “And what, exactly, am I giving as I’m learning to do this giving thing?”

22. “And what, exactly, am I giving as I’m learning to do this giving thing?”

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Nalo Hopkinson Quote: “The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story.”

23. “The point of fiction is to cast a spell, a momentary illusion that you are living in the world of the story.”

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