“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
“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
With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Partnership is giving, taking, learning, teaching, offering the greatest possible benefit while doing the least possible harm.” — Octavia E. Butler Education Copy Share Image
“Yet God has been here all along, shaping us and being shaped by us in no particular way or in too many… — Octavia E. Butler Chaos Copy Share Image
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant. — Octavia E. Butler Child Copy Share Image
“His mistake was in seeing her as a young girl. She was already a missile, armed and targeted.” — Octavia E. Butler Failure Copy Share Image
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time -… — Octavia E. Butler Alone Copy Share Image
“The essentials," I answered, "are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Your teachers Are all around you. All that you perceive, All that you experience, All that is given to you or taken… — Octavia E. Butler Change Copy Share Image
“That was what she said in the first of her verses in Earthseed: The First Book of the Living. All that you… — Octavia E. Butler Books Copy Share Image
“He led the way past the main house away from the slave cabins and other buildings, away from the small slave children… — Octavia E. Butler Children Copy Share Image
“There were still some Humans who insisted on seeing the ooloi as some kind of male-female combination, but the ooloi were no… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“To survive, Let the past Teach you-- Past customs, Struggles, Leaders and thinkers. Let These Help you. Let them inspire you, Warn… — Octavia E. Butler Change 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
“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
“We can, Each of us, Do the impossible As long as we can convince ourselves That it has been done before.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“She could not make herself ask whether he would be conscious and aware during these experiments. She hoped he would be.” — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for? — Octavia E. Butler Biology Copy Share Image
“It was milk that had sickened her. Animal milk! These people cooked many things with animal milk!” — Octavia E. Butler Sickened Copy Share Image
“First learning, then proving I’d learned. Knowing and using the knowledge aren’t the same thing.” — Octavia E. Butler Education Copy Share Image
“That's what Humans are, too, don't forget. People who poison each other, then disclaim all responsibility.” — Octavia E. Butler Nature of man Copy Share Image
Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“She went to him. She adjusted, became a quieter more subdued person. She didn't kill, but she seemed to die a little.” — Octavia E. Butler Acceptance Copy Share Image
“I’m still learning how dogged people can be in denial, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake.” — Octavia E. Butler Denial Copy Share Image
“Or it's happening because Shori is black, and racists—probably Ina racists—don't like the idea that a good part of the answer to… — Octavia E. Butler Racism 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
“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
I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me. I had begged for it when… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“I could accept him as my ancestor, my younger brother, my friend, but not as my master, and not as my lover.… — Octavia E. Butler Brother Copy Share Image
I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t let her come back whole and that, I think, really symbolizes her not coming back whole. Antebellum slavery didn’t leave… — Octavia E. Butler Antebellum Copy Share Image
“Così funziona. Quel Dio dell'Antico Testamento non contraddice il mondo in cui sono le cose adesso, ma assomiglia parecchio a Zeus. Sembra… — Octavia E. Butler Amor Copy Share Image
When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker… — Octavia E. Butler Animal Copy Share Image
“After a few years of watching the human species make things unnecessarily difficult for itself I have little hope that it will… — Octavia E. Butler 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
