Leslie

“She means it doesn't come off, Dana... The black. She means the devil with people who say you're anything but what you are.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“Learn the rules, break the rules, make up new rules, break the new rules.”
― Marvin Bell

“in an interview Butler has stated that the meaning of the amputation is clear enough: “I couldn’t really let her come all the way back. I couldn’t let her return to what she was, I couldn’t let her come back whole and that, I think, really symbolizes her not coming back whole. Antebellum slavery didn’t leave people quite whole.”1 Time”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

“He wasn't a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Kindred