I lost an arm on my last trip home.

Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

If you want a thing--truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible

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

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.

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.