Power came the way a child came -- with agony.

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

Expressing anger is an art. The more grace you apply to it, the more effective it shall be.

Is today a good day to die?Is today the day?And if not today–when?

My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

Why won't you drown?" he wailed, pummeling me with his fists."I'm Poseidon's son, " I said."Curse that upstart! I was here first!

Like Lincoln said: "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," and I feel the same way about the leftist dismantling of the West. If that's not wrong, then nothing is wrong.

Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.

Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten.

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

I think people have come to know me, and I don't deviate too much as an individual. What you see is what you get.

Even when there are no results. Things you can and can't do. Things you can and can't win. Even if there's none of that, I'll still try my hardest.