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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

My characters hope for better lives. — Octavia E. 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

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself. — 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

If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for? — Octavia E. Butler

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

Let go of me." It smoothed its tentacles again. "Be grateful, Joe. I'm not going to let go of you. — Octavia E. Butler

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

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

Read every day and learn from what you read. — 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

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

She jumps on me for sharing pain with the living, but she tries to share it with the dead. — 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

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. — Octavia Butler

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

No ... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. — Octavia Butler

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

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. — Octavia Butler

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

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

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

Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy. — Octavia Butler

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

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

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

The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars. — Octavia Butler

Would you like a tuna-salad sandwich?'
'Yes,' God said. 'Thank you. — Octavia E. Butler

Worship is no good without action. With action, it's only useful if it steadies you, focuses your efforts, and eases your mind — Octavia E. Butler

Science fiction is not formulaic. — Octavia E. Butler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The big talent is persistence. — Octavia E. Butler

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

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 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

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

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