Octavia E. Butler Quotes

Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 22, 1947 - February 24, 2006

Topics

SimpleBeginningBullyingRacism

My dad just decided that he wanted to race sled dogs, and when he did that, he took us out of Wasilla, and we never really went back.

John Gourley

BackRaceNeverDogsOutUs

It doesn't take Warren Buffett to realize that when companies don't know what new rules will look like, it affects their ability to commit capital and create new jobs.

John Sununu

LookRulesCreateNewKnowWill

For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.

John Pomfret

MeArmyHelpMapMoreQuestion

Just mention the idea of warrantless wiretaps and expect to get hit up with a congressional investigation. But give somebody an avatar and a URL, and he can't tweet, post or hyperlink enough personal information about himself to as many people as possible.

John Ridley

PeopleEnoughInformationPossible

Think until it hurts.

Roy Thomson

ThinkHurtsUntil

I like to just think of myself as a normal person who just has a passion, has a goal and a dream and goes out and does it. And that's really how I've always lived my life.

Michael Phelps

LifePassionMyselfThinkMy Life

There's really nothing like a live audience right there. When you're in a bad show, you can hear the creaks in the chairs.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

LiveYouBadNothingRightAudience

I wanted to write an adventure in the old-fashioned way, something to which I could apply the adjective 'rollicking' and not feel embarrassed. But I've never liked my heroes to be too heroic, so they ended up being a bunch of criminals instead.

Chris Wooding

AdventureFeelWayNeverHeroesUp

We not only have a legal obligation to honor our commitments, we have a moral obligation to provide the coverage we promised to provide to these people.

Bob Ney

PeopleLegalHonorMoralObligation

'Happy Days' is the type of show that represents the best we can be. It's something warm, something tactile when life was good and life was simple.

Anson Williams

LifeGoodBestSimpleHappyWarm

Most important about what Ashoka is doing is that they make people believe that change is possible. That belief can go viral.

Anne Wojcicki

ChangePeopleBelieveDoingPossible

I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.

Susan Straight

ManRiverPeopleStoryBackPig

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