“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.”

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the callin…" by Octavia E. Butler?

Octavia E. Butler107

American science fiction writer 1947–2006

Related quotes

“There are no innocent civilians. It is their government and you are fighting a people, you are not trying to fight an armed force anymore. So it doesn't bother me so much to be killing the so-called innocent bystanders.”

Curtis LeMay (1906–1990) American general and politician

Sherry, Michael (September 10, 1989). <i>The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon</i>, p. 287 (from "LeMay's interview with Sherry," interview "after the war," p. 408 n. 108). Yale University Press. ISBN-13: 978-0300044140.

“Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.”

Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949) American author and journalist

“It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me”

Jean Anouilh Antigone

Source: Antigone

“They call me nuts, they call me stupid, they call me ugly. They might be right about ugly. …All that I've done is to say what's on other peoples' mind.”

Alan Grayson (1958) American politician

"Grayson Has No Plans to Pull His Verbal Punches", Orlando Sentinet, October 30, 2009, http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2009/10/grayson-no-plans-to-tone-down-the-verbal-strikes.html. <br class="br">2009, Regarding himself