Consider We Are Born Not With Purpose,

The Essentials Are To Learn To Shape God With Forethought, Care, And Work; To Educate And Benefit Their Community, Their Families And Themselves; And To Contribute To The Fulfillment Of The Destiny.

Change Is The One Unavoidable, Irresistible, Ongoing Reality Of The Universe. To Us, That Makes It The Most Powerful Reality, And Just Another Word For God. Earthseed: The Books Of The Living Lauren Oya Olamina

Every Story I Create, Creates Me. I Write To Create Myself. Every Story I Write Adds To Me A Little, Changes Me A Little, Forces Me To Reexamine An Attitude Or Belief, Causes Me To Research And Learn, Helps Me To Understand People And Grow.

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.

Most Of What I Do Is Science Fiction. Some Of The Things I Do Are Fantasy. I Don't Like The Labels, They're Marketing Tools, And I Certainly Don't Worry About Them When I'm Writing. They Are Also Inhibiting Factors; You Wind Up Not Getting Read By Certain People, Or Not Getting Sold To Certain People Because They Think They Know What You Write. You Say Science Fiction And Everybody Thinks Star Wars Or Star Trek.