RIP Ursula Le Guin. She was a great writer and a great human being; a fighter for the underdog, a feminist and advocate for people of colour.

tehanufromearthsea:

“I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries — the realists of a larger reality. Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art,” she said at the National Book Foundation ceremony, where Gaiman presented her with the medal.

From her obituary in the NY Daily News.