Quotes from Octavia E. Butler

God is Change, and in the end, God prevails. But God exists to be shaped.

But God exists to be shaped. It isn't enough for us to just survive, limping along, playing business as usual while things get worse and worse. If that's the shape we give to God, then someday we must become too weak—too poor, too hungry, too sick—to defend ourselves. Then we'll be wiped out. There has to be more that we can do, a better destiny that we can shape.

She could not make herself ask whether he would be conscious and aware during these experiments. She hoped he would be.

L'intelligenza è adattabilità, costante e individuale.

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers. EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING

Imparando e adattandosi una vittima di Dio può diventare un suo compagno. Con lungimiranza e pianificazione una vittima di Dio può diventare un suo plasmatore. Oppure, per ristrettezza mentale e paura può restare vittima di Dio, il suo giocattolo, la sua preda.

And of course he was flattered that she wanted him. He was human, and no doubt tired of being alone.

From what I've read the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.

no matter what Dad thinks or wants or wishes. I feel what I see others feeling or what I believe they feel. Hyperempathy is what the doctors call an "organic delusional syndrome.

Is that the way it's going to be, I wonder? Is that the future: Large numbers of people stuck in either President-elect Donner's version of slavery or Richard Moss's.

L'avevo sentito morire e non ero morta. Avevo sentito il suo dolore come se fosse un essere umano, la sua vita divampare e spegnersi, eppure ero ancora viva.

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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers. EARTHSEED:

Act as a kind of gang? No. Not quite a gang. We aren't gang types. I don't want gang types with their need to dominate, rob and terrorize. And yet we might have to dominate. We might have to rob to survive, and even terrorize to scare off or kill enemies. We'll have to be very careful how we allow our needs to shape us. But we must have arable land, a dependable water supply, and enough freedom from attack to let us establish ourselves and grow.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change. -Earthseed

c'era voluta un'epidemia per far capire alla gente che le cose potevano cambiare.

All 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

The fans can be made to work on kid power. He's hooked them up to an old bicycle frame, and every Moss kid who's old enough to manage the pedals sooner or later gets drafted into powering the fans. The Moss kids hate it, but they know what they'll get if they don't do it.

old Aunt Mary." Who at last had drifted the final distance to her reward. She had lived over eighty years—had come over from Africa, people said.

How many people, I wonder, can be penned up and tormented—reeducated—before it begins to matter to the majority of Americans? How does this penning people up look to other countries?

Politicians, on the other hand, are short-term thinkers, opportunists, sometimes with consciences, but opportunists nevertheless.

You want to be what you are. That's healthy and right for you. What we do about it is our decision, our responsibility. Not yours.

Attention : A la guerre Comme en temps de paix, L'égoïsme aveugle Fait plus de victimes Que tous les autres fléaux Semence de la Terre : le Livre des Vivants

Partnership is giving, taking, learning, teaching, offering the greatest possible benefit while doing the least possible harm. Partnership is mutualistic symbiosis. Partnership is life. Any entity, any process that cannot or should not be resisted or avoided must somehow be partnered. Partner one another. Partner diverse communities. Partner life.