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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
~ I. King Jordan
Accident
Average
Deaf
Grew
High
High School
Hospital
Joined
Little
Little Town
Motorcycle
Navy
Outside
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Regular
School
Student
Then
Town
Up
Very
While
Woke
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
~ I. King Jordan
American
British
Different
Language
Lived
Scotland
Sign
Very
Year
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I'm a psychologist. I was a psychology faculty member, and then I became an administrator of the department, then the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the time of the presidential search, I was the dean.
~ I. King Jordan
Administrator
Arts
Became
College
Dean
Department
Faculty
Member
Presidential
Psychologist
Psychology
Sciences
Search
Then
Time
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I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
~ I. King Jordan
Also
Believe
Bridge
Committed
Communicate
Cultures
Different
Different Cultures
Different Worlds
Everything
I Think
More
More People
Needs
People
Reach
Sign
Speak
Still
Think
Two
Work
Worlds
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
~ I. King Jordan
Bit
Born
Comfortable
Deaf
Doing
Grow
Grow Up
Know
Little
Little Bit
Me
Myself
People
Resent
Some
Speak
Them
Up
Who
You
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A fantasy novel set in something other than medieval Europe, featuring an almost entirely black cast, is considered risky.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Almost
Black
Cast
Considered
Entirely
Europe
Fantasy
Medieval
Novel
Other
Risky
Set
Something
Than
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Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Actual
Developments
Ethical
Events
Historical
People
Politics
Reaction
Scientific
Series
Specific
Technological
Trends
Victorian
Were
Which
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All people who grew up with science fiction and fantasy and horror went through the whole acculturation process of the genre. We were all told to read the golden age writers. We were all told Heinlein and Asimov and all these straight, white males, although some of them were Jewish.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Age
All People
Although
Fantasy
Fiction
Genre
Golden
Golden Age
Grew
Horror
Jewish
Males
People
Process
Read
Science
Science Fiction
Some
Straight
Them
Through
Up
Were
White
Who
Whole
Writers
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Any writer kind of who knows what they're doing goes forth and grabs a copy of an issue of something that they want to be published in, or they skim it online. They read what that market has been doing. They see a particular flavor of fiction.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Any
Been
Copy
Doing
Fiction
Flavor
Forth
Goes
Has-Been
Issue
Kind
Knows
Market
Online
Particular
Published
Read
See
Something
Want
Who
Writer
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As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Black
Bunch
Change
Harmful
I Think
Interest
Maintaining
Need
Other
Particular
Quo
Sexist
Status
Status Quo
Things
Think
Whole
Why
Woman
Would
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Fantasy is fantasy. It's fiction. It's not meant to be a textbook. I don't believe in letting research overwhelm the fiction. That's a danger of science fiction in particular, as opposed to fantasy. A lot of writers forget that what they're doing is supposed to be art.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Art
Believe
Danger
Doing
Fantasy
Fiction
Forget
Letting
Lot
Meant
Meant To Be
Opposed
Overwhelm
Particular
Research
Science
Science Fiction
Supposed
Textbook
Writers
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I am a linear thinker in a lot of ways.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Am
I Am
Linear
Lot
Thinker
Ways
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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Choose
Fantasy
Focus
Guess
Just
Many
Mine
Privilege
Really
Seem
Strange
Strangely
Them
Understand
Why
Worlds
Writers
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I read a lot of history for fun.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Fun
History
Lot
Read
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I tend to like writing characters that are not typical heroes.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Characters
Heroes
Like
Tend
Typical
Writing
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I tend to write society as I see and understand it.
~ N. K. Jemisin
I See
See
Society
Tend
Understand
Write
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Because
Fiction
I Think
Interesting
Most
Settings
Think
Uncomfortable
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I think the people who believe that works can and always should be divorced from the context are people who have the privilege to do so.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Always
Believe
Context
Divorced
I Think
People
Privilege
Should
Think
Who
Works
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I was raised to be very wary of the police. I was raised to stay away from them unless you absolutely have to. Because they're dangerous.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Absolutely
Away
Because
Dangerous
I Was Raised
Police
Raised
Stay
Them
Unless
Very
Wary
You
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I would love to just write and not have everything I say or do turn into a political battle.
~ N. K. Jemisin
Battle
Everything
Just
Love
Political
Say
Turn
Would
Write
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