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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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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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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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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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There's no narcotic like exhaustion.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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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 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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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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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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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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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.
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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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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
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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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