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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

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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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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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And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
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People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.
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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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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
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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'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
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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 began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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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 have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
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Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.
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