When your rage is choking you, it is best to say nothing.
Interpretation
It's wise to remain silent during moments of intense anger.
This quote by Octavia Butler suggests that in times of anger, when emotions are overwhelming, it is more prudent to refrain from speaking. Speaking in such moments can lead to regrettable words and actions, and silence can allow for clarity and composure before responding decisively.
In practice
During a heated discussion in a meeting, one might quote Butler to emphasize the importance of remaining calm and not saying something impulsively.
What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.
Slavery was a long slow process of dulling.
Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun to be able to research and write about whatever I wanted to.
There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.
If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.
To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
If you really want to know what's happening here and now, you've got to use your own eyes and your own judgment.
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