Civilization is the way one's own people live. Savagery is the way foreigners live.

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.

Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.

To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that.