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Octavia Butler Inspirational Quotes (64)

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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
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If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible
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Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
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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.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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The essentials 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.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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