I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
Octavia ButlerThe differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments
Octavia ButlerReligion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.
Octavia ButlerI think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
Octavia Butler