“In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.”
― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Wild Seed
“Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.”
― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Wild Seed
“He could not tell her that he was angry because she did not love him. Even he could not utter such foolishness. Certainly, he did not love her. He did not love anyone except perhaps Isaac and a very few of his other children. Yet he wanted Anyanwu to be like his many other women and treat him like a god in human form, competing for his attention no matter how repugnant his latest body nor even whether he might be looking for a new body. They knew he took women almost as readily as he took men. Especially, he took women who had already given him what he wanted of them--usually several children. They served him and never thought they might be his next victims. Someone else. Not them.”
― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Wild Seed
“She learned quickly that it was not good to be too different. Great differences caused envy, suspicion, fear, charges of witchcraft.”
― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Wild Seed
“You are a good man,” she had observed contentedly. “And it has been too long since I had this.” He was surprised”
― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Wild Seed
“Could she give Doro what he wanted—what she herself had wanted for so long—children who would not die?”
― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Wild Seed
“Thus, when her enemies came to kill her, she knew more about surviving than they did about killing. And”
― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Wild Seed
“to be aware of a place where blackness was not a mark of slavery.”
― Octavia E. Butler, quote from Wild Seed
Octavia E. Butler
Born place: in Pasadena, California, The United States
Born date June 22, 1947
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“Of course you are. Emotions are totally irrational half the time." Her ice blue eyes lock onto me. "But you have full control over how you deal with them. Acknowledging that something is irrational and refraining from taking it out on someone is the best thing to do.”
― Kelley York, quote from Suicide Watch
“WHY in the world would MacKenzie ask ME to vote for HER for Sweetheart Princess when it’s so obvious that she HATES my guts?!”
― Rachel Renée Russell, quote from Dork Diaries Book 6: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker
“First, the explosion of life. Then came the celebration. Such as it had been for generations and generations, as long as the eldest of the eldest could remember; as long as the record books had kept steady score. By the time the first buds were edging their green shoots from the dirt, the parade grounds had been cleared and the maypole had been pulled from its exile in the basement of the Mansion. The board had met and the Queen decided; all that was left was the wait. The wait for May.”
― Colin Meloy, quote from Wildwood Imperium
“It was those words that made me fall in love with him. Right there in that spot. Because he wanted me to be like him. That was his normalcy.”
― Amber L. Johnson, quote from Puddle Jumping
“The message is: Widen the area of consciousness.”
― Allen Ginsberg, quote from Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
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