"…There’s still this notion that you are somehow morally superior if you don’t know anything about the background of the writers you read, and I maintain that writers have every right to not talk their backgrounds, that’s fine, but when people do and it’s important to their work, to not know doesn’t mean you’re morally superior, it means you are indifferent…"
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On the author having the right to reveal anything personal that’s significant to them in “Interview: Nalo Hopkinson” in Lightspeed (June 2013)
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