“You’re healthy,” it said. “Your development is exactly right. I can’t find any flaw in you.” And” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head? — 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
Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it. — Octavia E. Butler 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
“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
“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
“The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren't any other kind and yet I found myself… — Octavia E. Butler Inspirational Copy Share Image
Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Rufus had caused her trouble, and now he had been rewarded for it. It made no sense. No matter how kindly he… — Octavia E. Butler Heart Copy Share Image
“This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw.” “No it isn’t,” I said. “That book wasn’t even written until… — Octavia E. Butler Abolitionist Copy Share Image
The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you… — 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
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
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
“The war was an insanity he had never understood, and no one in Phoenix had been able to explain it to him.… — Octavia E. Butler Insanity Copy Share Image
“Then, somehow, I got caught up in one of Kevin's World War II books - a book of excerpts from the recollections… — Octavia E. Butler Books Copy Share Image
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play. — Octavia E. Butler Books 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
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds… — 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
“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
“Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.” — Octavia E. Butler Time 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
“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
“His air of innocent questioning confused me. Either he really didn’t know what he was saying, or he had a career waiting… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“And what? You think it’s going to get sane? It’s never been sane. You just have to go ahead and live, no… — 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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“ Your desires, Whether or not you achieve them Will determine who you become.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“It’s better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and… — Octavia E. Butler Fear 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
“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
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
