Question

who was Octavia butler speaking to when she said her quote, "I realize I don't know very much. None of us knows very much. But we can all learn more. Then we can teach one another. We can stop denying reality or hoping it will go away by magic."

Answer 1

I think she was speaking directly to the reader, i.e. humanity.

Step-by-step explanation:

In her work Parable of the Sower, Olivia Butler talks about Lauren Oya Olamina, who founds a new society, named the Earthseed, due to the changes on Earth. The story is set in 2020 in a largely dystopian society which has fallen apart due to climate change, inequality, and greed.

Butler says the quote above in order to warn the society against the possible catastrophe. This is something that is highly probable and might (possibly will) happen in our future, so she tried to help us understand that if we help teach each other and fight for our planet, we might even save it.