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Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.
Octavia Butler
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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.
Octavia Butler
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy.
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The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise- Into growth and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.
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When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
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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.
Octavia Butler
I'm literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
Octavia Butler
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
Octavia Butler
But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
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I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
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I lost an arm on my last trip home.
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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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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
Octavia Butler
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
Octavia Butler
Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops or classes - a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.
Octavia Butler
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.
Octavia Butler
You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
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Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.
Octavia Butler
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.
Octavia Butler
Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
Octavia Butler
