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

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

2. A heart broken by a girl can be repaired by another girl only.

Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children.

One of the greatest things in human life is the ability to make plans. Even if they never come true-the joy of anticipating is irrevocably yours. That way one can live many more than just one life.

To be successful in reaching goals, the right attitude is to never quit. Confidence is to keep the vision alive, by seeing a victory ahead that is worth fighting for.

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

A writer's work is the product of laziness.

Fearful of sentimentality, I disown my tears and melting heart.

I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.

My company created a platform called Modlife, this prepackaged website that runs an artist's website.