I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

It's when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I'm afraid that's what's going on in a lot of cases right now. When people deliberately tell lies, Creationism for instance, and pretend, "Oh, it's not really religion." I mean they know they're lying, and yet they're the religious people. There's something wrong there.

Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.