“Would you like a tuna-salad sandwich?' 'Yes,' God said. 'Thank you.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“I do what I can,' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.” — Octavia E. Butler Activism Copy Share Image
“He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” — Octavia E. Butler Hope Copy Share Image
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“As a kind of castaway myself, I was happy to escape into the fictional world of someone else's trouble.” — Octavia E. Butler Castaway Copy Share Image
“Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.” — Octavia E. Butler Time Copy Share Image
“I was always a doubter when it came to religion. How irrational of me, then, to love a zealot. But then, both… — Octavia E. Butler Psychology Copy Share Image
“I constructed you to look very male—so male that the females would be attracted to you and help convince you that you… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God” — Octavia E. Butler Change Copy Share Image
Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“To them it’s like deliberately causing the conception of a child who is so defective that it must die in infancy. ” — Octavia E. Butler Children Copy Share Image
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a… — Octavia E. Butler Ambition Copy Share Image
“I startled it. No, I shocked it profoundly—and it transmitted to me the full impact of that shock. Its multisensory illusions felt… — Octavia E. Butler Fear Copy Share Image
“Kindness eases change. Love quiets fear. And a sweet and powerful Positive obsession Blunts pain, Diverts rage, And engages each of us… — Octavia E. Butler Change Copy Share Image
“She and Harry may be the most loyal, least religious people in the community, but there are times when people need religion… — Octavia E. Butler Religion Copy Share Image
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“What are you?" I whispered."What are we to you?" She lay still, rested her head on her topmost coil. "You know me… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Is any of this real? Dangerous question. Sometimes I don’t know the answer. I doubt myself. I doubt what I think I… — Octavia E. Butler Art of life Copy Share Image
“Ooan?” I said. I hadn’t called it that for years. My older siblings called our parents by their names, and I had… — Octavia E. Butler Older sibling Copy Share Image
“Jarret supporters have been known, now and then, to form mobs and burn people at the stake for being witches. Witches! In… — Octavia E. Butler Witch Copy Share Image
“Cities controlled by big companies are old hat in science fiction. My grandmother left a whole bookcase of old science fiction novels.… — Octavia E. Butler Big companies Copy Share Image
“There are over 700 known dead so far. One hurricane. And how many people has it hurt? How many are going to… — Octavia E. Butler Hurricane Copy Share Image
“People are setting fires to get rid of whomever they dislike from personal enemies to anyone who looks or sounds foreign or… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“We have, it seems, a few people who think Jarret may be just what the country needs—apart from his religious nonsense. The… — Octavia E. Butler Dictators Copy Share Image
“In the book of Job, God says he made everything and he knows everything so no one has any right to question… — Octavia E. Butler Bible Copy Share Image
“It scares me how many things I've got to learn. How will I learn them?” — Octavia E. Butler Education Copy Share Image
“I had only to move my fingers a little a jab them into the soft tissues, gouge away his sight and give… — Octavia E. Butler Agony Copy Share Image
“Secretaries of Astronautics don’t have to know much about science. They have to know about politics.” — Octavia E. Butler Politics Copy Share Image
Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“But there’s no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn't say them, couldn't sort out my feelings about them, couldn't keep them bottled inside me.” — Octavia E. Butler Feelings Copy Share Image
“If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn’t give him power.” — Octavia E. Butler Power Copy Share Image
