Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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Octavia E. Butler Famous Quotes & Sayings
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We're an adaptable species," she said, refusing to be stopped, "but it's wrong to inflict suffering just because your victim can endure it." "Learn
Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
Here we are - Energy, Mass, Life, Shaping life, Mind, Shaping Mind, God, Shaping God. Consider - We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.
Could a creature who had to look upon ordinary people literally as food and shelter ever understand how strongly those people valued life?
I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away.
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
There was no real comfort in being alone with her thoughts, her memories, but somehow the illusion of freedom lessened her despair.
Twenty-five or thirty words are supposed to be enough in a news bullet to explain either a war or an unusual set of Christmas lights.
Did she struggle for life only out of habit, or because some part of her still hoped that there was something worth living for?
Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.
If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve.
My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when I was ten.
You are a good man," she had observed contentedly. "And it has been too long since I had this." He was surprised
In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, ... an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.
Such leaders knew that they could depend on fear, suspicion, hatred, need, and greed to arouse patriotic support for war.
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.
I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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.
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
Embrace diversity. Unite - Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those who see you as prey. Embrace diversity Or be destroyed.
I'm still learning how dogged people can be in denial, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Could she give Doro what he wanted - what she herself had wanted for so long - children who would not die?
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.
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.
Each of us,
Do the impossible
As long as we can convince ourselves
That it has been done before.
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.
When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust." She
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.
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.
You controlled both animals and people by controlling their reproduction - controlling it absolutely.
Worship is no good without action. With action, it's only useful if it steadies you, focuses your efforts, and eases your mind