Octavia Butler Quotes

Most popular Octavia Butler Quotes

Habit is persistence in practice. - Octavia Butler quote.
Habit is persistence in practice.
— Octavia Butler Bloodchild: And Other Stories

habit

The universe 
is God's self-portrait. - Octavia Butler quote.
The universe 
is God's self-portrait.
— Octavia Butler Parable of the Sower

God universe

Belief
Initiates and guides action—
Or it does nothing. - Octavia Butler quote.
Belief
Initiates and guides action—
Or it does nothing.
— Octavia Butler Earthseed

beliefs

When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing. - Octavia Butler quote.
When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
— Octavia Butler Fledgling: A Novel

rage

Embrace diversity
Unite—
or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed. - Octavia Butler quote.
Embrace diversity
Unite—
or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed.
— Octavia Butler Parable of the Sower

diversity

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyze yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it. - Octavia Butler quote.
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyze yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
— Octavia Butler Essence

writing

All struggles
Are essentially
power struggles.
Who will rule,
Who will lead,
Who will define,
refine,
confine,
design,
Who will dominate.
All struggles
Are essentially
power struggles,
And most
are no more intellectual
than two rams
knocking their heads together. - Octavia Butler quote.
All struggles
Are essentially
power struggles.
Who will rule,
Who will lead,
Who will define,
refine,
confine,
design,
Who will dominate.
All struggles
Are essentially
power struggles,
And most
are no more intellectual
than two rams
knocking their heads together.
— Octavia Butler Earthseed

struggle