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The big talent is persistence.

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To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living
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Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
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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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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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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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I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.
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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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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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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
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A tree Cannot grow In its parents' shadows.
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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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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.
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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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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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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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Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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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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