Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
Octavia ButlerPeople have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
Octavia ButlerIn my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
Octavia Butler