Quotes from Octavia Butler
The only lasting truth is change. God is change.
- Octavia Butler
We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.
- Octavia Butler
All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.
- Octavia Butler
The essentials are to learn to shape God with forethought, care, and work; to educate and benefit their community, their families and themselves; and to contribute to the fulfillment of the Destiny.
- Octavia Butler
I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.
- Octavia Butler
So fantasy was fine early on, and when I discovered science fiction, I was very happy with it, because my first interest in science fiction came with an interest in astronomy.
- Octavia Butler
Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
- Octavia Butler
He was like me - a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
- Octavia Butler
Tolerance like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned.
- Octavia Butler
My relative examined you, observed a few of your normal body cells, compared them with what it had learned from other humans most like you, and said that you had not only a cancer, but a talent for cancer.
- Octavia Butler
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.
- Octavia Butler
Drowning people sometimes die fighting their rescuers.
- Octavia Butler