"Consider--We are bornNot with purpose,But with potential."
- Octavia E. 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."
"Your teachersAre all around you.All that you perceive,All that you experience,All that is given to youor taken from you,All that you love or hate,need or fearWill teach you--If you will learn.God is y..."
"Was an eternity of absolute ease just another name for hell?"
"Read every day and learn from what you read."
"There must be good marriages somewhere, but to me, marriage had the feel of people tolerating each other, enduring each other because they were afraid to be alone or because each was a habit that the ..."
"I began writing about power because I had so little."
"Power came the way a child came -- with agony."
"Prayers only help the person doing the praying, and then, only if they strengthen and focus that person's resolve."
"Everything is so soft here,' he said, 'so easy...' 'I know"