I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

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 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

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

Morning is a song that succeeds the music of dawn...

A writer writes knowing that nothing else will elicit the same kind of satisfaction and personal triumph as molding the written word into a reader's great experience.

Talking to the parents of older kids was helpful for me, since parents of kids the same age as yours won't admit how horrible their children are.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

Oh, I have felt lust. And I've indulged lust. But no other woman has turned me into another person.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Life is too short to not tell every one you know about Jesus. I need to practice this more.

Govern thy Life and Thoughts, as if the whole World were to see the one, and read the other.

I really try to enjoy life and have joy with what I do.

Before I was famous, I already was the person that attracted and dealt with a lot of weirdos.