# Quote — Samuel R. Delany, Neveryona

> To be a bandit is better than to be a slave!

- Author: [Samuel R. Delany](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany.md)
- Book: [Neveryona](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona.md)
- Page: 86
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Samuel_R._Delany#Nevery%C3%B3na_(1983)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/to-be-a-bandit

## More from this book

> Myself, I suspect it’s a kind of madness: the madness that makes one repeat whatever one is trained to repeat.

p. 367 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/myself-i-suspect.md)

> For better or for worse, she found herself putting aside fear in favor of curiosity.

p. 163 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/for-better-or-for.md)

> Play makes a human being! Work just means you don’t have to feel guilty about playing, which I don’t feel much anyway. Mainly work means I don’t have to suffer the taunts of my friends who wonder why I’m playing as hard as I do!

p. 238 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-r-delany/neveryona/play-makes-a-human.md)