In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.
I lost an arm on my last trip home.
You are horror and beauty in rare combination.
I would never have been a good scientist – my attention span was too short for that.
Third, for people who aren’t doing it already, take classes – they’re worthwhile. Workshops or classes – a workshop is where you do actually get feedback on your work, not just something where you go and sit for a day.
I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you’re hurt, you’re really on your own. You’re alone, and there’s no one to help you.
In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.
He was like me – a kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.
Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina.
To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living.
On the other hand, I was very much interested in the way people behaved, the human dance, how they seemed to move around each other. I wanted to play around with that.
I wasn’t trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people.
There’s no narcotic like exhaustion.
When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn’t bother me. It’s other people doing the calling that bothers me.
All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change.
That educated didn’t mean smart. He had a point. Nothing in my education or knowledge of the future had helped me to escape. Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom.
There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.