It’s amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up.” ~ Octavia Butler Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. At last I began to say that my most important talent – or habit – was persistence.
“People who want to write either do it or they don’t.“Kindness eases change Love quiets fear” ~ Octavia Butler, Octavia Butler quotes on love.We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.” ~ Octavia Butler When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We need to become the adult species that the Destiny can help us become! If we’re to be anything other than smooth dinosaurs who evolve, specialize and die, we need the stars…. “We need the stars… We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of ourselves as a purposeful, growing species.“I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.” ~ Octavia Butler.“Consider We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.” ~ Octavia Butler.And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.” ~ Octavia Butler A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. “Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing.Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles, and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together.” ~ Octavia Butler “All struggles are essentially power struggles.It’s other people doing the calling that bothers me.” ~ Octavia Butler “People have the right to call themselves whatever they like.
“Be who you are and not who someone else thinks you ought to be.” ~ Octavia Butler.Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.” ~ Octavia Butler “We’re all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.” ~ Octavia Butler.Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.” ~ Octavia Butler Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. “In order to rise From its own ashes, A phoenix First Must Burn.” ~ Octavia Butler.Granted, there will always be people doing something different and there are a lot of possibilities.” ~ Octavia Butler “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.To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.” ~ Octavia Butler, Octavia Butler quotes on leadership
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
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