I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black.
-- Octavia Butler
   
Octavia Butler   Name:
Octavia Butler
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
American
Birth:
June 22, 1947
Death:
February 24, 2006
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