“I realize I don’t know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic.”

—  Octavia E. Butler, book Parable of the Sower

Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), Chapter 5 (p. 58)

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American science fiction writer 1947–2006

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