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You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

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I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
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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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There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
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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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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
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We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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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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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 think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
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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 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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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
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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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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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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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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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