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Octavia E. Butler Quotes

My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

Octavia E. Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Great People Sex Race More Deal

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.

Hope Time I Am Look Know Now

I studied social studies at Harvard, which makes it sound like I was in seventh grade. It was a choose-your-own-adventure major, where you could decide what you were going to focus on.

Focus You Sound Decide Harvard Like

I meet young people all the time who say something like, 'I want to work in venture capital.' And I can see why. Who wouldn't want to be smart, well-paid, dispense large sums of money, and tell people what to do?

Work Time Money Smart People I Can

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Violence Non-Violence More Than

Entrepreneurs see the thing they want or need, then try to figure out a process of how to get it. People who shouldn't be entrepreneurs see the standard process they need to go through to get the thing they want or need then decide if they want to go through that process.

People Process Go Want Try Need

Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.

Job Repetition Way Break Bring Get

The fundamentalist religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.

Martin Seligman

Future Hope More Religions Seem

To be a director, you have to think you're the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagined that you have to think deep down that you want to be Martin Scorsese or you want to be P.T. Anderson. Like, am I as good as those guys? Absolutely not. I feel like I keep learning, and I feel like I keep getting better.

Jonathan Levine

Learning Good Best School Better

As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.

Best Writing Criticism Kind Literacy

Some people never learn, no matter how much their heads hurt in the morning.

Morning People Hurt Learn Matter

When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I just don't think of race. I get on the plane and arrive in Atlanta, and immediately I'm aware of race.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Home Think Back Go Now Atlanta

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

Home People World Africa Million

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