I didn't want to scare you. We don't want to scare anyone."… - Octavia E. Butler

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I didn't want to scare you. We don't want to scare anyone."
"No? Well, sometimes it's a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.

Octavia E. Butler

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Octavia E. Butler (June 22, 1947 – February 24, 2006) was an American science fiction writer, one of the very few African-American women in the field.

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Birth Name: Octavia Estelle Butler

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