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“My brother Keith begged to go with us as usual. He'll turn thirteen in a few days - August 14 - and the thought of waiting two more years until he's 15 must seem impossible to him. I understand. Waiting is terrible. Waiting to be older is worse than other kinds of waiting because there's nothing…” quote by Octavia Butler — Download Open image

““My brother Keith begged to go with us as usual. He'll turn thirteen in a few days - August 14 - and the thought of waiting two more years until he's 15 must seem impossible to him. I understand. Waiting is terrible. Waiting to be older is worse than other kinds of waiting because there's nothing you can do to make it happen faster.””

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The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

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Life is getting better, but that won't stop a war if politicians and business people decide it's to their advantage to have one.

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Belief initiates and guides action - or it does nothing.

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Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

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But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.

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“In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina”

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I'm a fifty-three-year-old writer who can remember being a ten-year-old writer and who expects someday to be an eighty-year-old writer.

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I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing,

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Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools,…

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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…

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