Octavia Butler

Interview with inMotion Magazine, Feb. 2004

“All too often, especially young men, will feel, ‘Oh, if it was me, I would just…’ and they have some simple solution that wouldn’t work at all and would probably get them killed. Because they don’t really understand how serious it is when the whole society is literally arrayed against you and arrayed to really keep you in your place. If you get seriously out of line, they will kill you because they fear you.”