📚 #ArtIsAWeapon #SciFi #Afrofuturist #Author #OctaviaEButler reading a passage from her 1998 novel "Parable of The Talents" in a 2005 @democracynow interview: "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 told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery." - From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Prophetic and eerie how we are now living this 1998 imagining of the year 2032 ... #OctaviaButler #PropheticWritings #ParableoftheTalents #LaurenOlamina #Earthseed #GodIsChange #SaveHumanity #TrustBlackWomen #Resist #Organize #FBF #BlackCreativeGenius #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon