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“He did not really mind that none of the delegates had spoken to him before leaving. But he was crushed by his failure to get them to recognize what he had long known: that without power, a people must use cunning and guile. Or were cunning and guile, based on superior understanding of a situation, themselves power? Certainly, most black people knew and used this art to survive in their everyday contacts with white people. It was only civil rights professionals who confused integrity with foolhardiness. “Faith”
― Sheree Thomas, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

“One reason for this absence is that black writers have only recently entered the popular genres in force. Our writers have historically been regarded as a footnote best suited to address the nature of our own chains. So, if black writers wanted to branch out past the realism of racism and race, they were curtailed by their own desire to document the crimes of America. A further deterrent was the white literary establishment’s desire for blacks to write about being black in a white world, a limitation imposed upon a limitation.”
― Sheree Thomas, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

“Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora”
― Sheree Thomas, Dark Matter: Reading the Bones (Dark Matter

“What will you do with the information you have?” “Keep it close to my heart,” Xotama said. “I see that knowing too much, too soon, is not wisdom.”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

“This reporter is a registered theorist on why White people are fascinated by listening to the sounds of their victims’ pathetic crying.”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

“Angry because dozens of brutalized girls didn’t warrant watching the roads. Instead, the rapist got rewarded with a bride. But two men murdered, and heroic selflessness rears its cowardly head.”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

“They both had pieces missing and were tired of failing. Neither of them had learned, after two divorces, that people can’t be applied to wounds like gauze.”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

“The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes didn’t have tears, Langa. If you’re reading this my mzukulu, it looks like my cookbook has called to you which means I have passed on. Wipe your tears before reading on, I don’t want you staining the pages. Gogo M.M.W.”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

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“Healthy people say no one can concentrate like a DGD. Healthy people have all the time in the world for stupid generalizations and short attention spans.”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

“However, science is but diluted magic.”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

“The pioneering works of writers such as Samuel R. Delany, Octavia E. Butler, Amos Tutuola, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ben Okri, Kojo Laing, Charles R. Saunders, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Steven Barnes, Jewelle Gomez, L. A. Banks, Eric Jerome Dickey, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, Linda D. Addison, Nisi Shawl, Walter Mosley, Andrea D. Hairston, and others created a body of work that blazed a trail for new writers to come. Anthologies such as the groundbreaking volumes Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, edited by Sheree R. Thomas, as well as Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction and Mojo: Conjure Stories, edited by Nalo Hopkinson, helped challenge the assumption of invisibility and created more space for new works from a variety of communities to find their way into the publishing world.”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

“And Lord knows I have seen my share of Death and raised my hand to pass it on. Death follows me now like it did all those years. I lost my father, a blacksmith, from typhoid, and five brothers and sisters. I lost my uncle when them Matlock boys murdered him, and I barely had whiskers when I murdered two of them. I lost my twin sister Fannie when she died in childbirth. Lost my baby daughter named after her. I’ve seen death and death has seen me.”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, Nine Bar Blues

“Then they ducked under the canopy of forest, the others following, and let the dark green radiance embrace them.”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer

“People think girls don’t go to school here because we’re ignorant shepherds. Attendance rates plummet when the seasonal herds of long-horned zebu turn towards our village and rise again when they leave and drop in another village further away. It’s not ignorance. It’s fear. Keep your daughters home or else … or else the village might get another stone statue or another wedding …”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

“396, 417, 528, 639, 741, and 852,” he said. “Plus three additional notes, 963, 174, 285.”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, Nine Bar Blues

“But it was rumoured by the wise of Igodomigodo that Ogiso Igodo did not die, but bearing hard the humiliation of Elegbara, he had gone into Igbo Eda, the sacred forest of Olodumare wherein the powers of the earth were buried. It was said that as he could not be admitted into the abode of the gods, he besought Olodumare for the power of dominion over the earth. But Olodumare, mistaking his request, turned Ogiso Igodo into a tree whose root went deep into the earth’s core. Nurtured by the earth’s magma, the tree bore no fruits, and its leaves were red like flame, and bitter and poisonous, like the soul of Ogiso Igodo. And to this day, men who seek the powers of the earth bow to the tree and tap from its pitch and drain the bitterness of Igodo into their soul, and the powers they wield are cruel and merciless.”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction

“In hindsight, I came to realize I shouldn’t have let him give me things I didn’t want.”
― Sheree Renée Thomas, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

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