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To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.

Octavia Butler

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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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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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First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
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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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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
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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'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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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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The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
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