She found more gratification in teaching one willing student than a dozen resentful ones. - Octavia E. Butler

“He’s a fair man.”
I looked at him, startled.
“I said fair,” he repeated. “Not likable.”
I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.

All struggles
Are essentially
Power struggles.
Who will rule,
Who will lead,
Who will define,
refine,
confine,
design,
Who will dominate.
All struggles
Are essentially
Power struggles, And most
are no more intellectual
than two rams
knocking their heads together.

There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one. (p124)