# Quote — Octavia E. Butler, Kindred

> “He’s a fair man.”
>
> I looked at him, startled.
>
> “I said fair,” he repeated. “Not likable.”
>
> I kept quiet. His father wasn’t the monster he could have been with the power he held over his slaves. He wasn’t a monster at all. Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper.

- Author: [Octavia E. Butler](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler.md)
- Book: [Kindred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/kindred.md)
- Page: 134
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Octavia_Butler#Kindred_(1979)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/kindred/hes-a-fair

## More from this book

> Margaret Weylin complained because she couldn’t find anything to complain about.

p. 81 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/kindred/margaret-weylin-complained.md)

> Some of his neighbors found out what I was doing and offered him fatherly advice. It was dangerous to educate slaves, they warned. Education made blacks dissatisfied with slavery. It spoiled them for field work. The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have.

p. 236 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/kindred/some-of-his.md)

> There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one. (p124)

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/octavia-e-butler/kindred/there-was-no-shame.md)