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Octavia E. Butler on Writing (From our 2000 recorded interview!)

Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!

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The Only Lasting Truth Is Change, You Know?

I think that she was starting to see, i don't want to say this with any kind of sense of self congratulation, so i'll just say tht. Octavia focused on the problems regarding race and ginder in america. As a result, she did deep dives into that material. And unlike, say, spike lee, whos do the right thing, was about raceism. She's coming. We keepgoin, tiptoeing up to the edge and then coming back. It looks like winter, but after the winter comes the spring. You know that that we need a look at us.

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