Octavia Butler Quotes About Slavery

Quotes about: Slavery

• Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

  Octavia Butler

  Liars, Lying, Tyrants

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.226, Open Road Media

• 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.

  Octavia Butler

  Emotional, People, Work Out

• Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.

  Octavia Butler

  Long, Slavery, Process

  "Kindred".

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