Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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 in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
-
I really like performing for people.
-
The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
-
You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
-
Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.
-
Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
-
George Bush doesn't care about black people.
-
Our teachers are operating just as effective leaders in the business world do. They set a vision that most people think is crazy. They convince the kids why it's important to accomplish the goal. And they are totally relentless.
-
People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
-
I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people think a person should look like.
-
I want to do stories that inspire people.
-
People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
-
I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.
-
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
-
Writing is agony. I hate it.
-
Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to dominate one another. Let's be a collection, like being in the pub with a kitty. When we vote in Scotland, we vote one way, but the other country votes another way and we always end up with what they vote for.
-
It's human nature to want to be with other people.
-
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
-
As a listener, we're looking for that person who kind of excites the molecules within us - who knows how to tell the story that resonates deeply to our core and almost prompts us into action. Fats Waller has been that person for decades. When people need a lift, sometimes they go to him. I know I do.
-
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
-
It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.
-
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
-
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 in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
