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Octavia E. Butler QUOTES

Octavia E. Butler QUOTES

1 " Beware:
Ignorance
Protects itself.
Ignorance
Promotes suspicion.
Suspicion
Engenders fear.
Fear quails,
Irrational and blind,
Or fear looms,
Defiant and closed.
Blind, closed,
Suspicious, afraid,
Ignorance
Protects itself,
And protected,
Ignorance grows. "

― Octavia E. Butler , Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

2 " All that you touch
You Change.

All that you Change
Changes you.

The only lasting truth
is Change.

God
is Change. "

― Octavia E. Butler

3 " God is Change.

Earthseed: The Books of the Living
Lauren Oya Olamina "

― Octavia E. Butler , Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

4 " In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn. "

― Octavia E. Butler

5 " There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns. "

― Octavia E. Butler

6 " First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice. "

― Octavia E. Butler , Bloodchild and Other Stories

7 " You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it.
That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. "

― Octavia E. Butler

8 " I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell. "

― Octavia E. Butler

9 " Let them see that you trust them & let them solve their own problems, make their own decisions.Do that & they will commit their lives to you. Bully the, control them out of fear or malice or just for your own convenience, & after a while you'll have to spend all your time thinking for them, controlling them, & stifling their resentment. "

― Octavia E. Butler , Fledgling

10 " He rubbed his head again. 'Five years is longer than it sounds. So much longer. "

― Octavia E. Butler , Kindred

11 " Consider--
We are born
Not with purpose,
But with potential. "

― Octavia E. Butler , Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

12 " People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me. "

― Octavia E. Butler

13 " Your teachers
Are all around you.
All that you perceive,
All that you experience,
All that is given to you
or taken from you,
All that you love or hate,
need or fear
Will teach you--
If you will learn.
God is your first
and your last teacher.
God is your harshest teacher:
subtle,
demanding.
Learn or die. "

― Octavia E. Butler , Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)

14 " Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell? "

― Octavia E. Butler , Bloodchild and Other Stories

15 " Read every day and learn from what you read. "

― Octavia E. Butler , Bloodchild and Other Stories

16 " There must be good marriages somewhere, but to me, marriage had the feel of people tolerating each other, enduring each other because they were afraid to be alone or because each was a habit that the other couldn't quite break. "

― Octavia E. Butler , Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

17 " I began writing about power because I had so little. "

― Octavia E. Butler

18 " Power came the way a child came -- with agony. "

― Octavia E. Butler

19 " Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve. "

― Octavia E. Butler

20 " Everything is so soft here,' he said, 'so easy...' 'I know "

― Octavia E. Butler , Kindred