I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific natur…

- Nalo Hopkinson

My friend Ian Hagemann, a regular at Wiscon, once said on a panel that when he reads science fiction futures that are full of white people and no one…

- Nalo Hopkinson

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

- Nalo Hopkinson

I'd like to find great stories from as many parts of the world as possible.

- Nalo Hopkinson

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

- Nalo Hopkinson

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

- Nalo Hopkinson

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 a…

- Nalo Hopkinson

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.

- Nalo Hopkinson

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

- Nalo Hopkinson