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Octavia E. Butler
“Shyness is shit. It isn’t cute or feminine or appealing. It’s torment, and it’s shit.”
Octavia E. Butler, Bloodchild and Other Stories

Octavia E. Butler
“It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.”
Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler
“That educated didn’t mean smart. He had a point. Nothing in my education or knowledge of the future had helped me to escape. Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom.”
Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

Octavia E. Butler
“So I preached from Luke, chapter eighteen, verses one through eight: the parable of the importunate widow. It’s one I’ve always liked. A widow is so persistent in her demands for justice that she overcomes the resistance of a judge who fears neither God nor man. She wears him down. Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn’t always safe, but it’s often necessary.”
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

Octavia E. Butler
“Belief
Initiates and guides action—
Or it does nothing.”
Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

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