"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over."
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Octavia E. Butler, born on June 22, 1947, in Pasadena, California, emerged as one of the most important voices in science fiction, breaking barriers for African American women in a genre often dominated by white male authors. Her groundbreaking works, such as *Kindred* and the *Patternist* series, explore themes of race, gender, and humanity’s future with unparalleled depth and insight. Butler’s legacy endures not only through her innovative storytelling but also through her influence on a diverse array of writers and thinkers in speculative fiction.
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"Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not."
Octavia E. Butler"Religion 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."
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"People who think about time travel stories sometimes think that going back in time would be fun because you would have all the information you needed to be much more astute than the people there, when the truth is of course you wouldn't."
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"Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress, never completed, and, if we're as intelligent as we like to think we are, never abandoned."
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"I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining."
Octavia E. Butler"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about."
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"And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there's no science in it. It's a kind of grim fantasy."
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