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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.

Octavia Butler

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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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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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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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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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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 literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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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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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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Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant. And once you did understand them, the Humans got angry and acted as though you had stolen thoughts from their minds.
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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 have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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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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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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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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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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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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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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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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