N. K. Jemisin Quotes

Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but also I have more to offer than that.

Being different gives the world color.

Every single person in this world is a minority in one way or another. It just depends on how you slice the pie.

I feel that its important for me to be out there and to represent the face. At the same time, for me as an individual, I think the Asian-American face can be crowded with the American identity.

The American girl doesn't look just one kind of way - not in 2018, not ever.

I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.

I'm not stereotypically Canadian. I don't really follow hockey. I don't feel like anything other than myself, basically.

I'm unique - a cosmopolitan mix.

I don't want to be a race-transcending leader. I want to be deeply understood as a man, as African- American, as a Christian, all that I am.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

No one is any one thing.

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine.

I think all Latino actors want to be storytellers first. I want to be an actor first, and then I want to be Latina.

All my life I've been looking for diversity.

I love the mixture that's in me. It makes me me. And that's why it's such a shame that people waste energy in denying who they are.

We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.

We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting.

It's interesting to see how we are all uniquely different.

I think the only universal thing is one individual. If you talk about a country or a nation or a culture, it's so vague. I mean what is a nation? A nation is full of nice and bad and long and tall and short and thin people. It's not like everybody is the same.

No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play will resemble the other except in the premise. Your knowledge, your understanding of human nature, and your imagination will take care of that.

If everyone would look for that uniqueness then we would have a very colorful world.

Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.

I grew up watching cinema in my country that wasn't telling stories about us, and we had to find a way to connect, and our references, our role models had nothing to do with us. And I'm so glad that it's changing.

If the writers all come from the same backgrounds, you are going to get the same sorts of characters. Get a broader variety of writers, and you get a bigger range of stories.

I'm against all of us looking homogenous, where there's only one kind of a template of a person.