why can't I do what others have done - ignore the obvious. Live a normal life. It's hard enough just to do that in this world. 
Sensible. Conservative and sensible and mature and *wrong*. Very much in character with Joanne. 
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do. 
I'm sorry that astronaut will be brought back from her own chosen heaven. 
There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns. 
Daddy's the only man I know," he said softly, "who cares as much about giving his word to a black as to a white. 
We give lip service to acceptance, as though acceptance were enough. 
You controlled both animals and people by controlling their reproduction - controlling it absolutely. 
When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust." She 
Shyness is shit. It isn't cute or feminine or appealing. It's torment, and it's shit. 
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure. 
She learned quickly that it was not good to be too different. Great differences caused envy, suspicion, fear, charges of witchcraft. 
Gather information. Seek weakness. Watch, wait, and do what you have to to stay alive! 
Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. 
Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain. 
How dull it is to have people defining you. 
When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing. 
Your people contain incredible potential, but they die without using much of it. 
There is no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you. 
We can,Each of us,
Do the impossible
As long as we can convince ourselves
That it has been done before.
I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you. 
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines are buying it. 
Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter. 
We are a naturally hierarchical species. 
My God doesn't love me or hate me or watch over me or know me at all, and I feel no love for or loyalty to my God. My God just is. 
The big talent is persistence. 
To get along with God,Consider the consequences of your behavior.
Earthseed: The Books of the Living
Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head? 
As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble. 
I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer. 
I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm. 
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is. 
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun. 
Science fiction is not formulaic. 
Worship is no good without action. With action, it's only useful if it steadies you, focuses your efforts, and eases your mind 
Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything. 
Too many writers get into that gross-'em-out factor. 
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not. 
All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. 
I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision. 
Power came the way a child came -- with agony. 
Too. A woman should have something of her own. Doro 
I lost an arm on my last trip home. 
Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it. 
Such leaders knew that they could depend on fear, suspicion, hatred, need, and greed to arouse patriotic support for war. 
The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind ... 
Repressive societies always seemed to understand the danger of "wrong" ideas. 
Intelligence is relatively new to life on Earth, but your hierarchical tendencies are ancient. 
That which could hunger, could starve. 
He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer. 
Could she give Doro what he wanted - what she herself had wanted for so long - children who would not die? 
Everything is so soft here,' he said, 'so easy...' 'I know 
to be aware of a place where blackness was not a mark of slavery. 
Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me. 
Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage. 
I'm still learning how dogged people can be in denial, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake. 
Your desires, Whether or not you achieve them Will determine who you become. 
Help us to make America great again. 
Belief Initiates and guides action - Or it does nothing. 
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell. 
In order to riseFrom its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. 
Embrace diversity. Unite - Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those who see you as prey. Embrace diversity Or be destroyed. 
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play. 