Tricia Harris

“But there’s no power in having strength and brains, and yet waiting for God to fix things for you or take revenge for you.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“Toynbee offers his own explanation of how and why societies survive and prosper. It is the leadership of "creative minorities" that keeps societies alive and flourishing. But when the "creative" minority becomes a "dominant" minority, imposing its will by force and oppression, then poletariats (internal and external) are created and the society disintegrates. Though fervent and profuse with the data of his "English empiricism," Toynbee still developed his own mystique to replace "destiny." The real progress of a civilization consists in what Toynbee calls "etherialization"-"an overcoming of material obstacles which releases the energy of the society to make responses to challenges which henceforth are internal rather than external, spiritual rather than material.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin, The Seekers: The Story of Man's Continuing Quest to Understand His World

“I’m still learning how dogged people can be in denial, even when their freedom or their lives are at stake.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

“You're not winged because you are flying on a dragon”
― Cass Ark Galleas, About Myself