๐๐ Honoring a LEGEND: Happy 78th Birthday, Octavia E. Butler!
The Queen of Speculative fiction.
The Mother of Afrofuturism.
The Visionary who changed the game for Black women in sci-fi forever.
Today we celebrate her brilliance, her imagination, and her power.
โScience fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.โ
โEvery 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 growโ
โThe lovely thing about writing is, well, two things. One, writing fiction allows us to bring an order to our lives that doesn't exist in real life. And two, it allows us to create human characters that we know better than we will ever know anyone in real life.โ
Ms. Butler didnโt just write stories; she built futures, she cracked open possibilities, she dared to ask: What if?
Her work still shakes the table to this day.
Without her, would we have masterpieces from Ryan Coogler or Jordan Peele? ๐ค๐ค
We are because she was.
Her legacy is eternal. ๐๐ค
Source: Ashuka
Happy heavenly birthday, Ms. Butler. ๐๐
