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

Octavia Butler

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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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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. Im trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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All religions are ultimately cargo cults. Adherents perform required rituals, follow specific rules, and expect to be supernaturally gifted with desired rewards long life, honor, wisdom, children, good health, wealth, victory over opponents, immortality after death, any desired rewards.
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Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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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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.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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