All Jimmy Santiago Baca Quotes
- I emerged from the black oil pools in the forgotten house of dreams in the wild backcountry of the heart. I am heir to the… All
- I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks… Air
- Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say, Everyone
- I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again. Collect
- I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint,… Arm
- Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man,… Birth
- And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I… All
- Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue. Diva