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Octavia Butler

"People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me."

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"People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me."

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"A Christian's mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community."

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"You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them."

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"If you ask the great city, 'Who is this person?,' she will answer, 'He is my child."

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"If a man realizes who he is, he will not react to the negative things surrounding him."

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"What is inherent inside you is your uniqueness and peculiarity."

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"Your gift is not what you do but what you are."

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"There is no man in this world that God created to be a shadow of other people."

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"Your discovery and realization of your personality for the well-being of humanity is much more essential."

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"Knowing who you are in the world need to come first in identifying yourself."

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"Don't judge me by my appearance,by my looks,My Soul has a beautiful decorated Grave."

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"Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them."
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"A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think you're communicating. It's so easy as a young writer to think you're been very clear when in fact you haven't."
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"I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early."
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"On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that."
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"But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical."
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"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
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"You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence."
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"Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility."
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"The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way."
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"No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done and there will still be human beings. Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities."
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