Mastodawn

Choose your leaders
   with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
   is to be controlled
   by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
   is to be led
   by the opportunists
   who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
   is to offer up
   your most precious treasures
   to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
   is to ask
   to be lied to.
To be led by a tyrant
   is to sell yourself
   and those you love
   into slavery.

Octavia Butler (1947-2006) American writer
Parable of the Talents, ch. 11, epigraph (1998)

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Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up…

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royal Feb 2, 2025

Taken from elsewhere.
Day 1 of Black History Month

Octavia Butler was a pioneering writer of science fiction. As one of the first African American and female science fiction writers, Butler wrote novels that concerned themes of injustice towards African Americans, global warming, women’s rights, and political disparity. Her books are now taught in schools and universities across the U.S.

Octavia Estelle Butler was born in Pasadena, California in 1947. She grew up poor in a city that, while not segregated legally, was segregated in fact. Her father, who worked as a shoe shiner, died when she was seven and Butler was raised by her mother who worked as a maid and her grandmother. Butler remembered accompanying her mother to work at wealthy homes in Pasadena and having to enter through the back door. Her mother, who only had three years of formal schooling, worked incredibly hard to make sure Butler had more opportunities and a better education than she had.

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/octavia-estelle-butler

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/01/octavia-butler-feb-1-2025-black-history-month

#blackHistoryMonth #scifi #books #oliviaButler

Biography: Octavia Estelle Butler

Octavia Butler was a pioneering writer of science fiction. As one of the first African American and female science fiction writers, Butler wrote novels that concerned themes of injustice towards African Americans, global warming, and women's rights.

National Women's History Museum

Lorry Dec 17, 2022

I am only seeing my own #toots tonight, I haven't even seen a single @donmelton repost in the last 6 hours.

So I shall go to bed and read a few hours more creepy #SciFi by #OliviaButler - The next one is the book she hated so much that she pulled it from publication, so given the rest of the #Patternist series, I dread to think what that has in it!

Still at least it's not #Alien #TentaclePorn

Cassandra House of Priam Dec 13, 2022

My end of year #Holiday is in sight! Thank goodness given the run up to it is driving me nuts. Loaded onto various devices are my long haul flights and #HolidayReading:
- #SarahWinman, Still Life
- #MichelleDeKrester, Scary Monsters
- #OliviaButler, Adulthood Rites
- #NKJemisin, The Stone Sky
- @adapalmer, Too Like The Lightning
I think they should all keep me good company. And an unplanned bonus, all female-identifying writers (as far as I know!) @bookstodon