BewareAt war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interestThan of any other disease

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.

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

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.

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.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

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.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

All that you touchYou Change.All that you ChangeChanges you.The only lasting truthis Change.Godis Change.

God is Change.Earthseed: The Books of the LivingLauren Oya Olamina

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

She believes that everyone we meet influences us, that we need to hear their stories to learn more about ourselves.

I doubt if there is any problem in the world today - social, political or economic - that would not find a happy solution if approached in the spirit of the sermon on the mount.

I love getting out of bed for competition.

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest. [Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.

We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.

We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.

I didn't become CM on 07-10-2001. I have always been CM, I am CM today and shall be CM forever. For me CM means not Chief Minister but Common Man.

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.