Kay Lee

“At least three years ago, my father’s God stopped being my God. His church stopped being my church. And yet, today, because I’m a coward, I let myself be initiated into that church. I let my father baptize me in all three names of that God who isn’t mine any more.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“She believed in a literal acceptance of everything in the Bible. Yet, when things got to be too much for her, she decided to trade pain for eternal pain in the hereafter. How could she do that? Did she really believe in anything at all? Was it all hypocrisy? Or maybe she just went crazy because her God was demanding too much of her. She was no Job. In real life, how many people are?”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“Sometimes naming a thing—giving it a name or discovering its name—helps one to begin to understand it. Knowing the name of a thing and knowing what that thing is for gives me even more of a handle on it.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“A community’s first responsibility is to protect its children—the ones we have now and the ones we will have.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower