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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

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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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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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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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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
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I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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A victim of God may, Through learning adaption, Become a partner of God, A victim of God may, Through forethought and planning, Become a shaper of God. Or a victim of God may, Through shortsightedness and fear, Remain God's victim, God's plaything, God's prey.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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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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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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