Octavia Butler Quotes about Giving

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Humans persecute their different ones, yet they need them to give themselves definition and status.

Giving, Different, Needs

Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Lilith's Brood: Dawn, Adulthood Rites, and Imago”, p.417, Open Road Media

We give our dead To the orchards And the groves. We give our dead To life.

Death, Giving, Grove

Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Talents”, p.71, Open Road Media