on spiritual equality, Ursula Le Guin

Excerpts from Language of the Night

Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction is a collection of essays by Ursula K. Le Guin.

American SF and The Other

"If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally improverished your own reality. You have, in fact, alienated yourself."

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