Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (110)

I have watched education become more a privilege of the rich than the basic necessity that it must be if civilized society is to survive. I have watched as convenience, profit, and inertia excused greater and more dangerous environmental degradation. I have watched poverty, hunger, and disease become inevitable for more and more people.

Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (109)

I have also read that the Pox was caused by accidentally coinciding climatic, economic, and sociological crises. It would be more honest to say that the Pox was caused by our own refusal to deal with obvious problems in those areas. We caused the problems: then we sat and watched as they grew into crises.

Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (108)

The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one’s own place, One’s own people, One’s own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradis - Into growth and destruction, Into solitude and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.

Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (107)

As a country, we’ve given up our birthright for even less than bread and pottage. We’ve given it up for nothing - although I’m sure some people somewhere are richer now.

Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (106)

In small communities, she believed, people are more accountable to one another. Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you’re doing.

Parable of the Talents, Ocatavia E. Butler

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (105)

There seem to be solid biological reasons why we are the way we are. If there weren’t, the cycles wouldn’t keep replaying. The human species is a kind of animal, of course. But we can do something no other animal species has ever had the option to do. We can choose: We can go on building and destroying until we either destroy ourselves or destroy the ability of our world to sustain us. Or we can make.

Parable of the Talents, Ocatvia E. Butler

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (104)

We go on having stupid wars that we justify and get passionate about, but in the end, all they do is kill huge numbers of people, maim others, impoverish still more, spread disease and hunger, and set the stage for the next war. And when we look at all of that in history, we just shrug our shoulders and say, well, that’s the way things are. That’s the way things always have been.

Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler

Deliciosa Leitura Fantástica (103)

If you want a thing...truly want it, want it so badly that you need it as you need air to breathe, then unless you die, you will have it. Why not? It has you. There is no escape. What a cruel and terrible thing escape would be if escape were possible.

Parable of the Talents, Octavia E. Butler