N.K. Jemisin Quotes

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.

This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

...and when I lift my head to scream out my fury, a million stars turn black and die. No one can see them, but they are my tears.

True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.

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

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

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.

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.