My brother Bobby got me into Octavia's work and I am happy he did.
"Butler, who would have turned 72 on June 22,[2019] is often called the Mother of Afrofuturism—or Black speculative fiction (science fiction, fantasy, and horror). Long before my novels about African immortals that began with My Soul to Keep, Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther or the sci-fi horror of Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Butler was writing Black women into imaginary worlds with aliens, giving us powers of telepathy and sending us back to the slavery era to try to fix a horribly broken past. Afrofuturism—which spans literature, music, art, and film—is Black artists’ proclamation of “I am, I was and I WILL BE,” straddling genres and styles to create Black art that imagines a world not quite our own. Afrofuturism is space travel, superheroes, sorcerers, and seers.
- Essence Magazine
https://www.essence.com/entertainment/only-essence/octavia-butler-interv...
"Afrofuturism is the audacity to imagine a thriving future for Black people, or any future. -TANANARIVE DUE"
Featured Audio: Octavia E. Butler on Black Sci-Fi - Section 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lAXJQlmFUU