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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.

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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 was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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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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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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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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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.
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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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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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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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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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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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The big talent is persistence.
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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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The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments
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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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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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