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N. K. Jemisin

1972 CE –

Award winning speculative fiction writer, bimonthly column writer for The New York Times, fearless blogger, psychologist, and first black writer to win a Best Novel Hugo award; Jemisin helps mythologize current event themes in her fiction and carries these messages into the political and social worlds. Though arguably a stretch to include her in our Women of Wisdom Lineage, she’s still young and obviously on the way in that direction. Pointing out that 10% of the SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) members voted for alt-right writer Theodore Beale (Vox Day), she called him "a self-described misogynist, racist, anti-Semite, and a few other flavors of asshole” which led to him calling her an “ignorant savage" and his expulsion from the SFWA.

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Broken Earth

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The City We Became (2020)

Quotes by N. K. Jemisin (19 quotes)

“neither myths nor mysteries can hold a candle to the most infinitesimal spark of hope.”

from Broken Earth

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“Relationships chisel the final shape of one’s being. I am me, and you.”

from Broken Earth

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“I thought you would’ve learned to question the status quo a little better by now.”

from Broken Earth

Themes: Conformity

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“Magic, though, feels effortless… it is simply about knowing it’s there. Training yourself to see it.”

from Broken Earth

Themes: Magic Wu Wei

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“Only people who think they have a future fear death.”

from Broken Earth

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“No need for guards when you can convince people to collaborate in their own internment.”

from Broken Earth

Themes: Slavery

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“They all look different, but they have the same non-presence within”

from Broken Earth

Themes: Conformity

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“We were all guilty. All complicit in the crime of attempting to enslave the world itself.”

from Broken Earth

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“for a society built on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.”

from Broken Earth

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“Indifference is worse than hate.”

from Broken Earth

Themes: Ignorance Hate

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“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.”

from Broken Earth

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“If you love someone, you don’t get to choose how they love you back.”

from Broken Earth

Themes: Love

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“Stop thinking about that shit. Some thoughts are poison. You can think them, but only when you've got the strength—or therapy... 'Til then? Right now? Close it off. Focus on right here and now.”

from The City We Became (2020)

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“For the first time in years, it seems, she's done something not just because she's expected to do it, but because she's chosen to do it and done the hell out of it besides.”

from The City We Became (2020)

Themes: Carpe diem

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“It's the suburbs, where conformity trumps comfort... They are eerily similar in frame, these homes, though they've all got different paint jobs and siding and hedges.”

from The City We Became (2020)

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“Imagining a world creates it, if it isn't already there. That's the great secret of existence: it's supersensitive to thought. Decisions, wishes, lies—that's all you need to create a new universe.”

from The City We Became (2020)

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“Real gods aren't what most of you Christians think of as gods. Gods are people. Sometimes dead people, sometimes still alive. Sometimes never lived... They fall in love. Have babies. Fight. Die. It's duty. It's normal. Get over it.”

from The City We Became (2020)

Themes: Ordinary Mind God

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“he actually threw concepts at me. I had no idea your kind had advanced to the point of using energized abstract macroconstructs in combat. Who expects microbes to go nuclear?”

Themes: Conflict

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belonging is as quintessential to Staten Island–ness as toughness is to the Bronx and starting over is to Queens and weathering change is to Brooklyn”

from The City We Became (2020)

Themes: Nationalism

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