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Parable of the Sower
Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn’t always safe, but it’s often necessary.
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Sower
(Poor Godshaping. Lack of forethought.)
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Sower
began writing this about Mrs. Sims because she killed herself. That’s what’s upset me. She believed, like Dad, that if you kill yourself, you go to hell and burn forever. She believed in a literal acceptance of everything in the Bible. Yet, when things got to be too much for her, she decided to trade pain for eternal pain in the hereafter. How
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He hopes to get laws changed, suspend “overly restrictive” minimum wage, environmental, and worker protection laws
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Sower
“I was looking for God,” I said. “I wasn’t looking for mythology or mysticism or magic. I didn’t know whether there was a god to find, but I wanted to know. God would have to be a power that could not be defied by anyone or anything.” “Change.”
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Sower
way. I don’t claim that everything changes in every way, but everything changes in some way.”
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Sower
Name plus purpose equals focus for me.
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Sower
They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.
Octavia E. Butler • Parable of the Sower
They have no power to improve their lives, but they have the power to make others even more miserable. And the only way to prove to yourself that you have power is to use it.