{"author":"N.K. Jemisin","author_id":"N.K.+Jemisin","total_quotes":64,"quotes":[{"text":"But for a society build on exploitation, there is no greater threat than having no one left to oppress.","author":"N.K. Jemisin","tags":["fantasy","oppression"],"id":598,"author_id":"N.K.+Jemisin"},{"text":"This means, in a way, that true light is dependent on the presence of other lights. Take the others away and darkness results. Yet the reverse is not true: take away darkness and there is only more darkness. Darkness can exist by itself. Light cannot.","author":"N.K. Jemisin","tags":["dark","darkness","light"],"id":3523,"author_id":"N.K.+Jemisin"},{"text":"Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?","author":"N.K. Jemisin","tags":["imagination","missing","out-of-sight","wishing"],"id":9445,"author_id":"N.K.+Jemisin"},{"text":"For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.","author":"N.K. Jemisin","tags":["inspirational","social-justice"],"id":17570,"author_id":"N.K.+Jemisin"},{"text":"The way of the world isn't the strong devouring the weak, but the weak deceiving and poisoning and whispering in the ears of the strong until they become weak, too.","author":"N.K. Jemisin","tags":["blessed-are-the-meek","meek","meekness","meekness-strength","power-politics","strength","strength-of-character"],"id":19468,"author_id":"N.K.+Jemisin"},{"text":"Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.","author":"N.K. Jemisin","tags":["equality","justice","worth-fighting-for"],"id":34142,"author_id":"N.K.+Jemisin"},{"text":"No voting on who gets to be people.","author":"N.K. Jemisin","tags":["human-rights"],"id":61250,"author_id":"N.K.+Jemisin"},{"text":"Urgency and despair don't get along well.","author":"N.K. Jemisin","tags":["decision-making","depths-of-despair","despair","urgency"],"id":63686,"author_id":"N.K.+Jemisin"},{"text":"I think,' Hoa says slowly, 'that if you love someone, you don't get to choose how they love you back.","author":"N.K. Jemisin","tags":["love","love"],"id":65999,"author_id":"N.K.+Jemisin"},{"text":"He was dead again when I got home that day. His corpse was in the kitchen, near the counter, where it appeared he'd been chopping vegetables when the urge to stab himself through the wrist had struck. I slipped on the blood coming in, which annoyed me because that meant it was all over the kitchen floor.","author":"N.K. Jemisin","tags":["blood"],"id":80985,"author_id":"N.K.+Jemisin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":64,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}