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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.

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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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And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
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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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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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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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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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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 thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.
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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 began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
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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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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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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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