Dany Laferriere Quotes

#1. A poet's words are of things that do not exist without the words.

Wallace Stevens

#2. up the word 'detach' in the dictionary. Detach

Sinead Moriarty

#3. Be a good person, But don't try to prove

S.A.M.

#4. If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

Chinua Achebe

#5. I could never share the fate of a civilization that ostracizes rice. In no way could I trust people who believe yogurt is superior to rice.

Dany Laferriere

#6. People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat
that's the only moral they know.

Dany Laferriere

#7. Miz Beauty does not speak. You've got to discover her erogenous zones, her favorite subjects of conversation, her sign, all on your own. Meanwhile, Miz Piggy's coming like an express train. She doesn't get it every day. And she's hell-bent to make the most of it. She wants more, more, more.

Dany Laferriere

#8. Pushing the limits, to be thought provoking, pushing people to think and question the limits, it's not always bad for the rules if you're confident because it can even strengthen your understanding of religion in the process.

Tariq Ramadan

#9. Daughters-in-law who expect to live modern, post-liberalized lives are finding themselves stuck with pre-liberalized Mummyjis.

Veena Venugopal

#10. (Embarrassing old screen names are the lower-back tattoos of the Internet age.)

Alexandra Petri

#11. Fucking black was fucking exotic. And America loves to fuck exotic. Put black vengeance and white guilt together in the same bed and you had a night to remember!

Dany Laferriere

#12. Making love to a Negro isn't frightening; sleeping with him is. Sleep is complete surrender. It's more than nude; it's naked. Anything can happen during the night, when reason sleeps.

Dany Laferriere