Octavia E. Butler Quotes

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkPeopleSlaveryFeelTryingOut

My family and high school friends were the only people who were with me every step of the way through my mothers' illness. They sat by my side year after year and consoled me. If they ever sent me a bill, I would be paying them off for the rest of my life.

Jenna Morasca

LifeFamilySchoolStepPeopleMe

I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

CultureWrongWantPlacesTouch

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

John Yarmuth

SafeMiningContinueAllowProven

This business - the auditions, the anxiety - it's all so, aaah, crazy! But I can always call my mom in Cuba to be reminded of what real life is.

Ana de Armas

LifeBusinessMomCrazyAnxiety

How could you be from the ghetto and be a rat?

Suge Knight

YouGhettoRatHowCould

In our industry, there are so many competing companies and games, and they have people constantly out spying on competition. For example, Valve in Seattle tries to keep their location a secret.

Rony Abovitz

CompetitionPeopleGamesSecretOut

Some have been ensnared in the net of excessive debt. The net of interest holds them fast, requiring them to sell their time and energies to meet the demands of creditors. They surrender their freedom, becoming slaves to their own extravagance.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

FreedomTimeFastSurrenderMeet

The Internet is a good way to try some stuff with no big crew and no money being spent. Since there are no stakes to it, you can try to be a little experimental.

Jonathan Krisel

GoodMoneyInternetYouWayTry

And I think they loved me because I loved being part of their team, you know, and I quite often say to kids, that I was the worst player in the world's best football team - and that was good enough for me.

Craig Johnston

GoodBestFootballMeTeamWorld

Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.

Brian Greene

PartnerTheoryPartnersKnownShould

Art removes boundaries and makes the world brighter. It is the common language for people all over the world. But politics are the opposite completely. Politicians, their very meaning is based on the lines they draw.

Asghar Farhadi

ArtPoliticsPeopleWorldLanguage

What you've got to say, you say.

Shel Silverstein

YouSayGot

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