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Octavia Butler Quotes:

Ocupation: Writer

Life: June 22, 1947 - February 24, 2006

Birthday: June 22

Death: February 24

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

- Octavia Butler

source: Octavia E. Butler (1998). “Parable of the Talents: A Novel”, p.187, Seven Stories Press

topic: Ignorance, Blind, Quails

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