"Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective ..."
- Octavia E. Butler
"Bloodchild" is my pregnant man story."
"If you work hard enough at something that doesn’t matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do."
"BewareAt war Or at peace,More people die Of unenlightened self-interestThan of any other disease"
"There is no endTo what a living worldWill demand of you."
"When I began to do a little public speaking, one of the questions I heard most often was, "What good is science fiction to Black people?" I was usually asked this by a Black person...What good is scie..."
"The essentials," I answered, "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 o..."
"My brother Keith begged to go with us as usual. He'll turn thirteen in a few days - August 14 - and the thought of waiting two more years until he's 15 must seem impossible to him. I understand. Waiti..."
"I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm."
"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 ca..."