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Octavia E. Butler

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
— Octavia E. Butler self
Not everyone has been a bully or the victim of bullies, but everyone has seen bullying, and seeing it, has responded to it by joining in or objecting, by laughing or keeping silent, by feeling disgusted or feeling interested.
— Octavia E. Butler lies
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.
— Octavia E. Butler time
Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.
— Octavia E. Butler sex
The big talent is persistence.
— Octavia E. Butler talent
If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
— Octavia E. Butler vampires
Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
— Octavia E. Butler peace
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
— Octavia E. Butler ambition
I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.
— Octavia E. Butler writing
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
— Octavia E. Butler writing
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
— Octavia E. Butler science
I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.
— Octavia E. Butler people
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
— Octavia E. Butler writing
Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
— Octavia E. Butler fiction
Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.
— Octavia E. Butler change
I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
— Octavia E. Butler science
A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
— Octavia E. Butler time
I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
— Octavia E. Butler people
I'm very happy alone.
— Octavia E. Butler happy
Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
— Octavia E. Butler man
Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.
— Octavia E. Butler people
The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.
— Octavia E. Butler people
In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.
— Octavia E. Butler people
People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't.
— Octavia E. Butler truth

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