Nalo Hopkinson Quotes
'Children,' I said to her. 'For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don’t find?'
Quotes to Explore
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I was a regular hand when I was 7. I picked cotton. I drove tractors. Children grew up not thinking that this is what they must do. We thought this was the thing to do to help your family.
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I have one brother, John, an airline pilot, who is seven years younger. He's adopted, though we're still blood related - he's my cousin. My parents couldn't have any more children after me, so when Dad's brother died, they adopted John, then just a baby.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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I think that there's no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.
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I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.
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My children and my husband make me smile. My work makes me smile.
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She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.
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Positive social emotions like compassion and empathy are generally good for us, and we want to encourage them. But do we know how to most reliably raise children to care about the suffering of other people? I'm not sure we do.
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When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. He'd come home from work, and the wife would maybe say 'I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway'. And he would say 'Fine, what's for dinner?
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When you write for children and young adults, you have much more affect and influence on them than when you write for adults. The books that get us through our childhood stay with us for life.
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I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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I'm for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?
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My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.
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Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.
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Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards.
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'Children,' I said to her. 'For the first little while, they not exactly human, you don’t find?'
