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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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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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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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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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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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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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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 began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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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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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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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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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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The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.
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