Obviously in some places you will meet with some nastiness, but it isn't general.1994 interview in Conversations with Octavia Butler.Neither is in the slightest useful so I was eager to get away from that and Harlan was not interested in doing either. I was in classes sometimes where I was the only Black person and tend to either get ignored or get petted on the head a lot.Attributed in Conversations with Octavia Butler (2009) I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing. The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, any way. When I began writing science fiction, when I began reading, heck, I wasn't in any of this stuff I read.1996 interview in Conversations with Octavia Butler (2009).We managed to get through adolescence without being introduced to any black culture. We did not read anything by a black writer except Johnson's The Creation, and that was in high school. Washington started a college, and Carver did something with peanuts we never knew what. When I was growing up, the only blacks you came across in school were slaves-who were always well treated-and later, when we got to individuals, Booker T. I did not read any Langston Hughes until I was an adult, but I remember being carried away by him and Gwendolyn Brooks.And everything else just kind of fell into it, fell into place. And that's what I wound up writing about. I want to write about what's going to happen if we keep doing what we've been doing, if we keep recklessly endangering the environment, if we keep paying no attention to economic realities, if we keep paying no attention to educational needs, if we keep doing a lot of the things that are hurting us now.It does seem to me that there are too many people in this world who would just as soon wipe out half their country if they could rule the other half. I began writing the book with the thought that maybe what we needed was the biological conscience.I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy.2.1 Adrienne Maree Brown, Interview with Democracy Now (2021).1.13 Interview with Democracy Now (2005).1.10 Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995).
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