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

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

Promise is more worthy than Time and Money.

Babies are the buds of life ready to bloom like a fresh flower to refresh humanity.

You didn't judge my past. That's when I knew I couldn't turn away from you even if I tried...

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

The weapons room looked exactly the way something called "the weapons room" sounded like it would look.

Iran is taking over Iraq.

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong.

I don't know anything about the afterlife because I haven't been there yet.