Michelle

“There is poetic justice in the fact that this era, between the civil rights movement and the nation’s Bicentennial, also sees the creation and rise of the neo-slave novel, with Octavia’s Kindred being one of the most groundbreaking examples of the genre.”
― Susana M. Morris, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

“I spent a lot of my childhood being ashamed of what she [her mother] did, and I think one of the reasons I wrote Kindred was to resolve my feelings, because, after all, I ate because of what she did . . . Kindred was kind of a reaction to some of the things going on during the sixties when people were feeling ashamed of, or more strongly, angry with their parents for not having improved things faster, and I wanted to take a person from today and send that person back to slavery.”
― Susana M. Morris, Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

“Democracy is complicated. It’s also easily compromised by blatant bias, downright lies, and the media organizations that enable them.”
― Kamala Harris, 107 Days

“Trump was their vehicle, his road paved for him, years earlier, by a hot and pungent brew: Ronald Reagan’s celebrity, Newt Gingrich’s belligerent discourse, and Pat Buchanan’s nativism.”
― Kamala Harris, 107 Days