Quote by Octavia Butler: “God is Change.”

In Butler's Parable of the Sower, this is the central spiritual belief of her protagonist — that the only constant, the only force more powerful than human will, is change itself. Accepting change as the fundamental nature of reality is both terrifying and liberating. Resistance to it is the source of most human suffering.

Butler published Parable of the Sower in 1993, set in a near-future California collapsing under climate change, inequality, and social breakdown. The novel appeared during the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and amid growing climate science, making its warnings about civilizational fragility feel immediately prescient.

American science fiction author whose work explored themes of race, gender, and power through speculative worlds. Her Parable series and Kindred are considered foundational works of Afrofuturism and science fiction, and she was the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur 'Genius' Fellowship.