Sapphire. Quotes

#1. Depression is anger turned inward.

Sapphire.

#2. Almost all instruction seems to revolve around language ac-(Jermaine spelling now) "q, a-kwi-si-tion acquisition!" ("What that?" I ask. "You know, to get. Language acquisition, to get some language.")

Sapphire.

#3. Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

Sapphire.

#4. Can the light dying behind my eyes be
recorded in rhyme schemes?
I meet this page in the morning beating back death
trying to re-member.

Sapphire.

#5. I changed the past by walking back into it.

Sapphire.

#6. I'm ashamed, this is my mama. No matter how fly my braids is, how I grease my skin, scalp, no matter how many jew'ries, this is my mother. -Said by Precious Jones in Push

Sapphire.

#7. Listen baby, Muver love you. Muver not dumb. Listen baby: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.
Thas the alphabet. Twenty- six letters in all. Them letters make up words. Them words everything.

Sapphire.

#8. I'm curious to see, now that beauty is gone, what will be reflected in a mans eyes.

Sapphire.

#9. Bloody hell, son, don't tell me you brought the girl with you. You, you never bring the strays home.

Sapphire.

#10. Sure you can do anything when talking or writing, it's not like living when you can only do what you doing.

Sapphire.

#11. Is life a hammer to beat me down?

Sapphire.

#12. I bite my fingernails till they look like disease, pull strips of my skin away. Get Daddy's razor out cabinet. Cut cut cut arm wrist, not trying to die, trying to plug myself back in. (111)

Sapphire.

#13. If God made anything better than Coffee and Chocolate, he kept it to himself.

Sapphire.

#14. I don't understand why some kids git a good school and mother and father and some don't. But Rita say forgit the WHY ME shit and git on to what's next.

Sapphire.

#15. I say I drownin' in river. She don't look me like I'm crazy but say, If you just sit there the river gonna rise up drown you! Writing could be the boat carry you to the other side. (97)

Sapphire.

#16. A girl takes my tongue, signs her name
& asks me how do I like it?

Sapphire.

#17. The answer is always yes to cheese.

Sapphire.

#18. Everything ends; there is no endless anything, except in dreams.

Sapphire.

#19. Some folks got a light around them that shine for other peoples. I think that maybe some of them was in tunnels, and in that tunnel, maybe the only light they had was inside of them. And then, even long after they escaped that tunnel... They still be shining for everybody else.

Sapphire.

#20. How that is so I don't know. How Mama and Daddy know me sixteen years and hate me, how a stranger meet me and love me. (131)

Sapphire.

#21. How is something a memory if you never forgit?

Sapphire.

#22. ... but you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive ...

Sapphire.

#23. I know I'm stupid
I know I'm worthless
but I coulda been a star-
a stupid worthless star.
What I can't
be
I kill.

Sapphire.

#24. I know you are, but you gotta push

Sapphire.