I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.

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• Octavia E. Butler:

  The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always write

• Octavia E. Butler:

  Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're

• Octavia E. Butler:

  I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people

• Octavia E. Butler:

  I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance

• Octavia E. Butler:

  The lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an ord

• Octavia E. Butler:

  I pecked my stories out two-fingered on the Remington portable typewriter my mother had bought me.

• Octavia E. Butler:

  My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I a

• Octavia E. Butler:

  My characters hope for better lives.

• Octavia E. Butler:

  I'm very happy alone.

• Octavia E. Butler:

  We are a naturally hierarchical species.