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N.K. Jemisin

" So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream. "

Dream , Writing , Taken

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" So here is why I write what I do: We all have futures. We all have pasts. We all have stories. And we all, every single one of us, no matter who we are and no matter what’s been taken from us or what poison we’ve internalized or how hard we’ve had to work to expel it – – we all get to dream. "

Dream , Writing , Taken

" In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe. "

Mother , Children , Mom

" There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child. "

Mother , Children , Warrior

" We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease. "

Politics , Political

" There is nothing foolish about hope. "

Foolish

" If the first words out of your mouth are to cry 'political correctness!', ... chances are very, very high that you are in fact part of the problem. "

Racism , Political , Mouths

" This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot. "

Darkness , Light , Mean

" Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to? "

World , Should , Faces

" There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully. "

Truth , Ifs

" But when I got angry, my nerves sought an outlet, and my mouth didn't always guard the gates. "

Mouths

" Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture. "

People , Thinking

" You're very lucky... Friends are precious, powerful things - hard to earn, harder still to keep. You should thank this one for taking a chance on you. "

Powerful , Chance , Lucky

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