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  • #1
    Octavia E. Butler
    “I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.”
    Octavia E. Butler

  • #2
    Octavia E. Butler
    “All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles, and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.”
    Octavia E. Butler

  • #3
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Change
    is the one unavoidable,
    irresistible,
    ongoing reality of the universe.
    To us,
    that makes it the most powerful reality,
    and just another word for
    God.

    Earthseed: The Books of the Living
    Lauren Oya Olamina”
    Octavia Butler

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    Octavia E. Butler
    “First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”
    Octavia Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

  • #6
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Drowning people
    Sometimes die
    Fighting their rescuers.”
    Octavia Butler

  • #7
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Beware:
    At war
    Or at peace,
    More people die
    Of unenlightened self-interest
    Than of any other disease.”
    Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #8
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Choose your leaders
    with wisdom and forethought.
    To be led by a coward
    is to be controlled
    by all that the coward fears.
    To be led by a fool
    is to be led
    by the opportunists
    who control the fool.
    To be led by a thief
    is to offer up
    your most precious treasures
    to be stolen.
    To be led by a liar
    is to ask
    to be told lies.
    To be led by a tyrant
    is to sell yourself
    and those you love
    into slavery.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #9
    Octavia E. Butler
    “He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.”
    Octavia Butler

  • #10
    Octavia E. Butler
    “Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

  • #11
    Octavia E. Butler
    “The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.”
    Octavia E Butler

  • #12
    Octavia E. Butler
    “That which could hunger, could starve.”
    Octavia E. Butler

  • #13
    Octavia E. Butler
    “There is no end
    To what a living world
    Will demand of you.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

  • #14
    Octavia E. Butler
    “I'm a 48-year-old writer who can remember being a 10-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an 80-year-old writer. I'm also comfortably asocial -- a hermit in the middle of Los Angeles -- a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.”
    Octavia E. Butler

  • #15
    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.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Talents

  • #16
    Octavia E. Butler
    “My brother Keith begged to go with us as usual. He'll turn thirteen in a few days - August 14 - and the thought of waiting two more years until he's 15 must seem impossible to him. I understand. Waiting is terrible. Waiting to be older is worse than other kinds of waiting because there's nothing you can do to make it happen faster.”
    Octavia Butler

  • #17
    Octavia E. Butler
    “The essentials," I answered, "are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families, and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

  • #18
    Octavia E. 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, Kindred

  • #19
    Octavia E. Butler
    “God is Change.

    Earthseed: The Books of the Living
    Lauren Oya Olamina”
    Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

  • #20
    Octavia E. Butler
    “He could not tell her that he was angry because she did not love him. Even he could not utter such foolishness. Certainly, he did not love her. He did not love anyone except perhaps Isaac and a very few of his other children. Yet he wanted Anyanwu to be like his many other women and treat him like a god in human form, competing for his attention no matter how repugnant his latest body nor even whether he might be looking for a new body. They knew he took women almost as readily as he took men. Especially, he took women who had already given him what he wanted of them--usually several children. They served him and never thought they might be his next victims. Someone else. Not them.”
    Octavia E. Butler, Wild Seed

  • #21
    Steven Barnes
    “Someone asked me about the difference between love and lust. Hmmm. That will take a little thought. How to tell the difference? Well, for guys, if she looks better AFTER you've made love to her than before, that might be love. If you find yourself itching to get out the door afterward, probably just lust, y'know?”
    Steven Barnes

  • #22
    Steven Barnes
    “Saying spirituality cannot exist without religion is like saying hamburgers cannot exist without McDonald's.”
    Steven Barnes

  • #24
    Virginia Woolf
    “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #25
    Michael Cunningham
    “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
    Michael Cunningham, The Hours

  • #26
    Virginia Woolf
    “Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

  • #27
    Virginia Woolf
    “Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #28
    Virginia Woolf
    “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #29
    Virginia Woolf
    “When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
    Virginia Woolf

  • #30
    Virginia Woolf
    “Books are the mirrors of the soul.”
    Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts

  • #31
    Virginia Woolf
    “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
    Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas



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