Octavia E. Butler Quotes
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Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.
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Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.
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Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.
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The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
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If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours?
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Now I have been raped.It happened twice. Once on Monday, and again yesterday. It is my Christmas gift from Christian America.
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Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn’t find anything to complain about.
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Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.
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Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.
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Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
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I might not have believed this if a Human had said it. Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everybody had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.
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He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
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Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.
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'From what I’ve read,' I said to him, 'the world goes crazy every three or four decades. The trick is to survive until it goes sane again.'
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A pet. In pets, free will was tolerated only as long as the pet owner found it amusing.
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Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn’t vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.
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We give our deadTo the orchardsAnd the groves.We give our deadTo life.
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If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible
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Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease
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'What will they do when they have only the herbs' he asked her.'Live or die as best they can,' she said. 'Everything truly alive dies sooner or later.'
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He didn’t look all right to me. 'Has anyone gone for the doctor?''Marse Tom don’t hardly get Doc West for ague. He says all the doc knows is bleeding and blistering and purging and puking and making folks sicker than they was to start.'
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A treeCannot growIn its parents’ shadows.
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I’m literate, and the idea of leaving children illiterate is criminal.
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There’s no narcotic like exhaustion.