Octavia E. Butler Quotes


When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.


Citations

Butler, Octavia E. "The Monophobic Response." Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, edited by Sheree R. Thomas, Warner Books, 2000, p. 415.

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Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler
  • Born: June 22, 1947
  • Died: February 24, 2006
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Writer

Octavia Estelle Butler was an American science fiction author. A multiple recipient of both the Hugo and Nebula awards, she became in 1995 the first science-fiction writer to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.