Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1)

by Octavia E. Butler

Civilization is the way one’s own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.”

White men leave brown children all about, but a white woman who does this becomes almost an animal in the eyes of other whites.”

“Christians consider it a great sin to take one’s own life,” he said. “They consider it a sin to take any life, yet they kill and kill.”