162 Quotes by Octavia Butler

Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers.

I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.

All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.