America Quote by Jimmy Santiago Baca

I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

“They turn the water off, so I live without water, they build walls higher, so I live without treetops, they paint the windows black,…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

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…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

“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…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

I can't stand the comfort zone. So many people I know, their parents give them their homes, and they get married and have children,…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say,

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

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

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

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,…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca

You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give…

— Jimmy Santiago Baca