“So what? You have to teach people how to touch you?” I” — Octavia E. Butler Education Copy Share Image
“They're desperate or crazy or both. That's enough to make anyone dangerous.” — Octavia E. Butler 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
“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
“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
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
Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it. — Octavia E. Butler 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
“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
“ Your desires, Whether or not you achieve them Will determine who you become.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.” — Octavia E. Butler Communication Copy Share Image
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable… — 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
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write about. It's my way of… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Reading these tales is like looking at a photograph of a child whom you only knew as an adult. In her eyes… — Octavia E. Butler Children Copy Share Image
As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Se sono tuoi, stabilisci tu le regole. A chi importa che cosa ne pensano i giocattoli? Spazza via l'intera famiglia di un… — Octavia E. Butler Amor Copy Share Image
“I can take a lot of pain without falling apart. I’ve had to learn to do that. But it was hard, today,… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and… — Octavia E. Butler Inspiration Copy Share Image
“I mean, that guy who wants to be President, that Jarret, he would call you all heathens or pagans or something." Indeed,… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Let them see that you trust them & let them solve their own problems, make their own decisions.Do that & they will… — Octavia E. Butler Control Copy Share Image
“He could not tell her that he was angry because she did not love him. Even he could not utter such foolishness.… — Octavia E. Butler Children 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
“in an interview Butler has stated that the meaning of the amputation is clear enough: “I couldn’t really let her come all… — 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
“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 is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” — Octavia E. Butler Hope Copy Share Image
“He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Could a creature who had to look upon ordinary people literally as food and shelter ever understand how strongly those people valued… — Octavia E. Butler Animals Copy Share Image
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
I don't know how much of a market there is for space opera. Just because it's in the movies doesn't mean magazines… — Octavia E. Butler 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
My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I… — 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
