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“Are you surprised that you became a writer?” 😒

The “hhmmm” at 21:09 😂. Octavia was too cultured to say that sounds like a bunch of hogwash.

This woman was a visionary...I'm going to almost like a Prophet. The Parable of The Talents, is going of the most TERRIFYING books, I have ever read.

Thank you ❤for EXPOSING this guy, (who incidentally was accused of sexual harassment and lost his show) who I personally believe was/is a racist, based on the way he interacted in interviews with black ppl. *ESPECIALLY BLACK WOMEN* “In November 2017, Rose was fired from PBS after The Washington Post published multiple in-house allegations of sexual harassment from the late 1990s to 2011.”

1:28 You have to make your own worlds, write yourself in! 📖🖋

Octavia Butler is one of the most beautiful souls to ever create art. I’m so glad I found my way to her books. The way she writes makes falling into a story so easy and cathartic. I’m reading through “Parable of the Sower” now, my first time. I know she passed a few years ago 😔 so I came here to hear her voice. I miss Octavia Butler’s presence in this world. I think she’s one of the best American writers of our generation.

watching her interviews makes me think of how part of being a successful writer, particularly a Black woman writer at that time (and now) has to do with meeting incompetence and thinly veiled hostility with cleverness and grace. i wish there were more recorded interviews of her speaking with actually good interviewers who were excited about her work and connected with it but her navigation of what was is so skillful!

Parable of the Sower is a prophecy for 2024

what an awesome woman

I really like Octavia Butler,She stimulates me ! I met her once in a book store , back in the nineties, and she regarded me as a mother who figure who is thinking : what a sweet child "... She reminded me of my Aunties , and the church ladies who regarded me as an adorable small child 😂

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Ummm..... how did charlie rose get tripped up on space "race"? It's crazy how focused he was on race simply because she's a black woman. Amazing interview though.

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I wish he would shut the fuck up so I can hear her talk.

I think we can all learn from OEB. Humble, honest, sincere, great sense of humor, no time for stereotypes

Does anyone know where I can access a transcript of this interview? Maybe it's because I have a processing disorder but I genuinely cannot understand most of it.

Infectious book. I can't wait to read the second. Can't help but like her in interviews too. Any suggestions of what book of her I should read after the sower books?

"...sending my mind off some place it hasn't been before..." - the exact reason I picked up Kindred. What an author.

She is my favorite writer of all time and I will always be inspired by her works. Her art fuels my art❤

Parable of the Sower and the Talents is what got me through the pandemic. It gave me hope and I am forever grateful to Octavia Butler truly brilliant and prophetic mind

Thank you for posting!!!

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I could become a writer or I could die really young, it wasn’t anything else I wanted

I need to read her books! And the interviewer just kept Over talking her 🙄

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Such a treasure to hear her words and perspective!! But Charlie Rose is the WORST! Interrupting her constantly. Flipping through his notes. Looks like he can't wait to get on to the next guest. Her intellect is so vastly superior to his. Geesh.

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I am currently reading "Kindred" by Octavia Butler for my A.A. Studies class. So far, I am thoroughly impressed by how her mind works in writing novels. I am looking forward to reading the rest of her books as well. 💯

These interviews irritate me a bit because I want the interviewer to shut up and let her finish speaking

Had the pleasure of meeting her any moons ago...very low key lady.

I'm 60 years old and just discovered Octavia Butler's wonderful books. She is now one of my favorite writers; Toni Morrison is the other.❤

Just finished reading "Dawn" (my first Butler book) - what a rare and amazing talent. I can't wait to start another one of her books.

["Parable of the Sower", by Octavia Butler, MAKE the movie! ] we need to make "Parable of the Sower" into a movie! why is it not ALREADY a movie?! this lady saw the future some 30+ years ago... well, that future is now, or almost now, like tomorrow, maybe a couple of years from now, but it's coming, as inevitable as an atmospheric river, blizzards in LA, massive widespread poverty, food riots, the scarcity of potable water, raging fires, guns, the whole kit'n'caboodle... it's happening right now, just getting rolling! you can hear the vast multitudes around the world, migrating, trying to live, be alive, have a life, families, friends, enemies, they are all moving, look at the borders... their porosity is only going to increase... can't stop it, this tsunami cannot be stopped... this lady saw the future, with the clarity of a vision, if we don't make this book into a movie right now, then no book should have ever been made into one

I was hospitalized for 37 days and, when I had enough energy, I went to thw patiwnt library. Ki dred was the only book (1) with a black person on the cover and(2) in large print. I grabbed it and thus commenced a love affair!

Thanks for the upload

Gratitude for this soul. We get to see so much with these minds of our past but man what a jewel she is and I hope to meet her in one of my many realities. Rest here Goddess.

Wow I could listen to her thoughts for hours and hours. So fascinating.

Man, what a god awful interviewer. The questions he asked had nothing to do with the book, as if he skimmed it and saw the praise: reducing it to "black science-fiction" when the topics of race, are only a fraction of the whole of the work. On top of that, he keeps fucking interrupting her despite having nothing to say and the question of "Why Science-Fiction?" is so trite and condescending. Like, I don't know: maybe this is a story that can only be told through those narrative devices and putting it into a box, is reductive and pretentious. Also, "You must be on a self-improvement kick" REALLY? Is it an abnormality for someone to want to read and learn new things, outside of their typical wheelhouse? What a sniveling, racist, little piece of shit.

This guys is just crap, sorry. She deserved so much higher level of interviewer… the questions, gosh… The way he looks at his notes while she’s talking. 😒 She might have just thought : “oh well, let’s do this and go back home.” Anyway, very happy to see her and mesure her amazing and powerful prestance.

Man I wish I could sit down and talk to her.

Read her books, guys!

What year was this?

When was this interview made please?

Charlie really doesn’t know how to not interrupt her 🙄🙄🙄gross. Still grateful to have this record of her words.

"I've lost my train of thought I'm sorry ..." - Butler 😁

This is a really nice interview. I'm sorry that a pivotal part of this conversation was lost and wasn't picked back up!! At 18:41 the interviewer asks, "Is it possible for black people, or people of color, to formulate visions of the future that are both liberating and purposeful?" Octavia responds "Of course" , I don't even know what else to say about that, I mean, WE BETTER!! Judy Dash..."Well, given the present situation of people of color around the world, shouldn't we be more concerned with dealing with the problems of the present rather than the future?" Octavia Butler....Well, if that's what we do, then we'll go on having some pretty nasty problems in the future". After which, tells the story of a friend of hers who doesn't want her kid to learn Spanish in school....Here is where it gets cut off, but essentially she says something that I think many of us NEED to hear today, which is that we cannot continue to think small, or from a place of lack, because when we do, we do ourselves "a lot of harm"....we MUST begin to vision more in the future. A much better one, and then make it happen.

Loved this interview, thanks for posting it.

A true prophetess who tried to warn us.....

Thank you so much for this upload! I have been immersing myself in Ms Butler's work for months now.. I had been meaning to read her for years but as I'm not a big science fiction fan, i was afraid to not like her books but it's so much more than "science fiction"....Kindred and the Parable series are now in my top 10! I couldn't put them down...I'm also starting Bloodchild, one of her collections of short stories...Rest in Peace Ms Butler and thank you!♥️🙏🏾

imagine you're Octavia Butler's homie who was complaining about their kids school and now for the rest of time people get to watch you get dragged by the greatest spec fic writer ever