"I got a tree on my back and a haint in my house, and nothing in between but the daughter I am holding in my arms."
From Beloved by Toni Morrison
Prodigy is, at its essence,
adaptability and persistent,
positive obsession. Without
persistence, what remains is
an enthusiasm of the moment. Without
adaptability, what remains may
be channeled into destructive
fanaticism. Without positive
obsession, there is nothing at all.
From Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
Of all the crimes of humanity, this was the worst: that servos were created with no ultimate sense of purpose except to serve their destroyers. Even those who achieved sentience were still enslaved from within."
From Daughter of Elysium by Joan Slonczewski
We are for breeding purposes: we aren't concubines, geisha girls, courtesans. On the contrary: everything possible has been done to remove us from that category. There is supposed to be nothing entertaining about us, no room is to be permitted for the flowering of secret lusts; no special favors are to be wheedled, by them or us, there are to be no toeholds for love. We are two-legged wombs, that's all: sacred vessels, ambulatory chalices.
From The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
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.
From Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will premit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn my inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
From Dune by Frank Herbert
"She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind."
From Beloved by Toni Morrison
When apparent stability disintegrates.
As it must---
God is Change---
People tend to give in
To fear and depression,
To need and greed.
When no influence is strong enough
To unify people
They divide.
They struggle,
One against one,
Group against group,
For survival, position, power.
They remember old hates and generate new ones,
They create chaos and nurture it.
They kill and kill and kill,
Until they are exhausted and destroyed,
Until they are conquered by outside forces,
Or until one of them becomes
A leader
Most will follow,
Or a tyrant
Most fear.
From Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
"We're selecting, aren't we? And we'll keep doing it, on and on, and the years will go by, and eventually, all our sons will come home, is that it? No more penis worshippers? No more trumpets and drums and games? What will we do then?"
"We won't have anymore wars. Theoretically. No wars at all."
From The Gate To Women's Country by Sherri S. Tepper
Embrace diversity.
Unite---
Or be divided,
robbed,
ruled,
killed
By those who see you as prey.
Embrace diversity
Or be destroyed.
From Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
"Humans live best when each has his own place to stand, when each knows where he belongsin the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.
From Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
God is neither good
nor evil,
neither loving
nor hating.
God is Power.
God is Change.
We must find the rest of what we need
within ourselves,
in one another,
in our Destiny.
From Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
But maybe a man was nothing but a man, which is what Baby Suggs always said. They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely that was, they studied your scars and tribulations, after which they did what he had done: ran her children out and tore up the house.
From Beloved by Toni Morrison
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