Dream Quote by Jimmy Santiago Baca

“I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.” quote by Jimmy Santiago Baca — Download Open image

“I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.”

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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 on my nerves; objects made impressions on my sight as if in clay. There, in the soft language, life centered and ground itself in me and I was flowing with the grain of the universe.…

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“They turn the water off, so I live without water, they build walls higher, so I live without treetops, they paint the windows black, so I live without sunshine, they lock my cage, so I live without going anywhere, they take each last tear I have, I live without tears, ...they take my heart and rip it open, I live…

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I do know that if you can name certain things and understand them, it allows you to make better choices. Unfortunately, there's so much…

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“It's the process of making-do, of the life I've lived between breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life worth living. I could not bear…

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Americans would have a right to go to war with the Iraqis if we could name one author from Iraq. It disturbs me that…

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We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a rebellious state, he has nowhere to go but to put himself in jeopardy with the police. When a kid who has some class privilege rebels, he's in a beautiful room and he can buy these horrible CDs and…

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