- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Naturally
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a naturally hierarchical species.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
- Persistence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big talent is persistence.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.
- Eras
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
- Disaster
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
- Enemies
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.
- Engineering
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- Nov 07, 2020
If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020