Since Baby’s birth, she had learned that the first few months of motherhood were about fatigue and leakiness. - Nalo Hopkinson

There are those who fear that if books get published according to some kind of identity-based quota system, literary excellence will suffer. What seems to be buried in the shallow grave of that concept is the assumption that there are no good writers in marginalized communities.

Mami," Ti-Jeanne said, "I should go and get Baby. He ain't take to Tony." "Hmph. Child got some sense, then. More than some I could name. But leave he there. He have to learn that he can't always have what he want.

Children," I said to her. "For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don't find?