“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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“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
― J.K. Rowling, quote from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we've been all raised by television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't and we're slowly learning that fact. and we're very very pissed off.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, quote from Fight Club
“When you spend your whole life living in a hole,” he said, “the only way you can go is up.”
― Louis Sachar, quote from Holes
“In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagines past”
― Alan Moore, quote from Watchmen
“Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti
(Follow your road and let the people say)”
― Dante Alighieri, quote from The Divine Comedy
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