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Beware:Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.Octavia E. Butler
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Consider--We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.Octavia E. Butler
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There must be good marriages somewhere, but to me, marriage had the feel of people tolerating each other, enduring each other because they were afraid to be alone or because each was a habit that the other couldn't quite break.Octavia E. Butler
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I found that I couldn't muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we could all do was to look after one another and clean up the various hells we've made right here on earth.Octavia E. Butler
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People do blame you for the things they do to you.Octavia E. Butler
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I do what I can, ' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.Octavia E. Butler