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Here we are - Energy, Mass, Life, Shaping life, Mind, Shaping Mind, God, Shaping God. Consider - We are born Not with purpose, But with potential. — Octavia E. Butler

There are so many interesting times we could have visited. — Octavia E. Butler

Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one. — Octavia Butler

People do blame you for the things they do to you. — Octavia E. Butler

Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live. — Octavia E. Butler

Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status. — Octavia Butler

Could a creature who had to look upon ordinary people literally as food and shelter ever understand how strongly those people valued life? — Octavia E. Butler

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease — Octavia Butler

I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away. — Octavia E. Butler

I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant. — Octavia E. Butler

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. — Octavia E. Butler

Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy. — Octavia E. Butler

There was no real comfort in being alone with her thoughts, her memories, but somehow the illusion of freedom lessened her despair. — Octavia E. Butler

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. — Octavia E. Butler

Did she struggle for life only out of habit, or because some part of her still hoped that there was something worth living for? — Octavia E. Butler

Kindness eases change
Love quiets fear — Octavia E. Butler

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early. — Octavia Butler

I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse. — Octavia Spencer

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing. — Sarah Zettel

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling. — Octavia E. Butler

Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again." He — Octavia E. Butler

Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve. — Octavia E. Butler

But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical. — Octavia Butler

I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me. — Octavia E. Butler

He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying. — Octavia E. Butler

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically. — Octavia E. Butler

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. — Octavia E. Butler

You are a good man," she had observed contentedly. "And it has been too long since I had this." He was surprised — Octavia E. Butler

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. — Octavia E. Butler

The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T. — Octavia Spencer

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. — Octavia E. Butler

The Dunns must of felt this when Tracy vanished. Crazy as they are, crazy as she was, they must — Octavia E. Butler

She glanced at him. "What gods do you respect?" "None." "And why not?" "I help myself," he said. — Octavia E. Butler

Bloodchild" is my pregnant man story. — Octavia E. Butler

I had novels to write, so I wrote them. — Octavia E. Butler

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you. — Octavia Butler

I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time. — Octavia Butler

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose. — Octavia Butler

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership. — Octavia Butler

I will be girl with claws, heart bared and bruised and wanting. I am soul-shattering wolf-howl. I am lioness and hunt. I am more and enough. I am. — Venetta Octavia

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. — Octavia E. Butler

I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking. — Octavia E. Butler

The big talent is persistence. — Octavia E. Butler

We are a naturally hierarchical species. — Octavia E. Butler

Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter. — Octavia E. Butler

I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm. — Octavia E. Butler

Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun. — Octavia E. Butler

I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book. — Octavia Spencer

Science fiction is not formulaic. — Octavia E. Butler

I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part. — Octavia Spencer

Slavery is a long slow process of dulling. — Octavia Butler

A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows. — Octavia Butler

wasn't sure, when — Octavia Alrose

I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing. — Octavia Butler

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life. — Octavia Butler

To get along with God,
Consider the consequences of your behavior.
Earthseed: The Books of the Living — Octavia E. Butler

To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. — Octavia Butler

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is. — Octavia E. Butler

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing, — Octavia Butler

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes. — Octavia Spencer

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. — Octavia E. Butler

As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble. — Octavia E. Butler

Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head? — Octavia E. Butler

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns. — Octavia E. Butler

I didn't realize that diets don't work, and I did not want to diet. I didn't want to do anything that required dieting. — Octavia Spencer

You are horror and beauty in rare combination. — Octavia Butler

Shyness is shit. It isn't cute or feminine or appealing. It's torment, and it's shit. — Octavia E. Butler

When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust." She — Octavia E. Butler

You controlled both animals and people by controlling their reproduction - controlling it absolutely. — Octavia E. Butler

We give lip service to acceptance, as though acceptance were enough. — Octavia E. Butler

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. — Octavia E. Butler

Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind. — Octavia Spencer

I can write my own stories and I can write myself in. — Octavia Butler

I'm very happy alone. — Octavia E. Butler

I'm sorry that astronaut will be brought back from her own chosen heaven. — Octavia E. Butler

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way. — Octavia Butler

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. — Octavia E. Butler

Sensible. Conservative and sensible and mature and *wrong*. Very much in character with Joanne. — Octavia E. Butler

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active. — Octavia Spencer

Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up. — Octavia Butler

I'm not trying to be a different weight. I want to be a different body type so that I'm not an apple. I just want to be a pear! — Octavia Spencer

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. — Octavia E. Butler

I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest. — Octavia Spencer

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. — Octavia E. Butler

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you. — Octavia E. Butler

We can,
Each of us,
Do the impossible
As long as we can convince ourselves
That it has been done before. — Octavia E. Butler

There is no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you. — Octavia E. Butler

Your people contain incredible potential, but they die without using much of it. — Octavia E. Butler

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing. — Octavia E. Butler

How dull it is to have people defining you. — Octavia E. Butler

Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it. — Karen Joy Fowler

I'm probably the most militant person you'll ever meet and I speak my mind without provocation sometimes. — Octavia Spencer

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain. — Octavia E. Butler

The only lasting truth is change. God is change. — Octavia Butler

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. — Octavia E. Butler

To be silent is to be passive. — Octavia Spencer

Gather information. Seek weakness. Watch, wait, and do what you have to to stay alive! — Octavia E. Butler

Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow. — Octavia Butler

She learned quickly that it was not good to be too different. Great differences caused envy, suspicion, fear, charges of witchcraft. — Octavia E. Butler

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. — Octavia E. Butler