Quotes from Octavia E. Butler

Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn't always safe, but it's often necessary.

They say detailed news doesn't matter. Since we can't change the stupid, greedy, vicious things that powerful people do, they think we should try to ignore them. No matter how many times we're forced to admit we can't really hide, some of us still find ways to try. Well, we can't hide. So it's best to pay attention to what goes on. The more we know, the better able we'll be to survive.

It's hard to believe that kind of thing happened here, in the United States in the twenty-first century, but it did.

Our adults haven't been wiped out by a plague so they're still anchored in the past, waiting for the good old days to come back.

Do you believe? Belief will not save you.

For the kingdom of Heaven is as a man traveling into a far country who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.

My point is—my question is—how in the world can anyone get married and make babies with things the way they are now?

I'm no good at denial and self-deception.

I didn't know how bad it would be or when it would come. But everything was getting worse: the climate, the economy, crime, drugs, you know. I didn't believe we would be allowed to sit behind our walls, looking clean and fat and rich to the hungry, thirsty, homeless, jobless, filthy people outside.

I like Curtis Talcott a lot. Maybe I love him. Sometimes I think I do. He says he loves me. But if all I had to look forward to was marriage to him and babies and poverty that just keeps getting worse, I think I'd kill myself.

You know the kind of shit men say to one another when they want to stop other men from listening to a woman.

I think people who traveled to extrasolar worlds would be on their own—far from politicians and business people, failing economies and tortured ecologies—and far from help. Well out of the shadow of their parent world.

For the kingdom of Heaven is as a man traveling into a far country who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto One he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey

As for the beatings, the tarring and feathering, and the destruction of "heathen houses of devil-worship," he has a simple answer: "Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.

Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same and made them another five talents. And likewise he that had received two, he also gained another two. But he that had received one went out and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

WHAT WOULD THEY DO this time? Ask more questions? Give her another companion? She barely cared.

I would never have been a good scientist—my attention span was too short for that.

Kevin, você não precisa bater nas pessoas para tratá-las com brutalidade.

Every one knows that change is inevitable. From the second law of thermodynamics to Darwinian evolution, from Buddhism's insistence that nothing is permanent and all suffering results from our delusions of permanence to the third chapter of Ecclesiastes ("To everything there is a season"), change is part of life, of existence, of the common wisdom. But I don't believe we're dealing with all that that means. We haven't even begun to deal with it.

Anyanwu! Does that white skin cover your eyes too?

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

struggles Are essentially power struggles. Who will rule, Who will lead, Who will define, refine, confine, design, Who will dominate. All struggles Are essentially power struggles, And most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads

His environment had left its unlikable marks on him

too. A woman should have something of her own." Doro