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

Science fiction and fantasy are about looking at the world through a different lens. So whatever I write, including sex scenes, I may first think, how can I cause myself, and the reader, to see this differently? What can I do to challenge, delight, surprise, unsettle?

A lot of the time, all I'm trying to do is put some of my specific ethnocultural touchstones into science fiction and fantasy. When white writers do that, it's barely remarked-upon. And sometimes it should be, because it's often wonderful.