Octavia E. Butler
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Octavia E. Butler
Octavia Estelle Butlerwas an American science fiction writer. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, Butler was one of the best-known women in the field. In 1995, she became the first science fiction writer to receive the MacArthur Fellowship, nicknamed the "Genius Grant."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 June 1947
CountryUnited States of America
kids
I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
movies people
Movies are extremely imitative of one another. Whatever works, people will try to do it.
believed deal great people
My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
people
Writing has been as difficult for me as for people who don't like to write and as little fun.
awkward earliest hopeless rest school shy spite sports taller
At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
belonged house lived named nor people worked
When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.
alone cage locked looking remember saw time unhappy zoo
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.
actual delusional hurts
Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
human religion societies whether
Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.
people
How dull it is to have people defining you.
elements judged people science worst
Science fiction, extrasensory perception, and black people are judged by the worst elements they produce.
certainty former hermit large middle pessimist
I'm comfortably asocial - a hermit in the middle of a large city, a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty and drive.
Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
discovered guess men people vampires
Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.