Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.
Octavia ButlerNothing. It just finds you a lot more attractive than it does most Humans. What can you do with a beautiful woman that you canโt do with an ugly one? Nothing. Itโs just a matter of preference.
Octavia ButlerBeware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.
Octavia Butler