339 Quotes by Octavia E. Butler

I could accept him as my ancestor, my younger brother, my friend, but not as my master, and not as my lover. He had understood that once.

Get focused on arranging to survive so that we can do more than just get batted around by crazy people, desperate people, thugs, and leaders who don’t know what they’re doing!” She.

People are setting fires to get rid of whomever they dislike from personal enemies to anyone who looks or sounds foreign or racially different. People are setting fires because they’re frustrated, angry, hopeless. They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.

Thus, when her enemies came to kill her, she knew more about surviving than they did about killing. And.

You do everything they tell you,” she wept, “and they still treat you like a old dog. Go here, open your legs; go there, bust your back. What they care! I ain’t s’pose to have no feelin’s!

Human purpose isn’t what you say it is or what I say it is. It’s what your biology says it is – what your genes say it is.

Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Help us to make America great again.

We caused the problems: then we sat and watched as they grew into crises.

You are a good man,” she had observed contentedly. “And it has been too long since I had this.” He was surprised.