Earthseed: Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

chances. “I wonder what happened to that woman to make her willing to do a thing like that,” I said as we walked this morning. “She was out of her mind,” Len said. “That’s all.” “That’s rarely all,” I said.