Jimmy Baca Quotes

#1. I am a face in a trance, evoking duende. My face imbues breath and stuns you with star-spirit. I am grove-face, story-teller face, and dawn-bringer face. A face as common as carrots and celery, called upon as a father to be cook, waiter, servant, and maid.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#2. The next time she comes back, no matter what she says, listen to her well. If she cries, give her a handkerchief and wait until she's done crying. If she curses me, curse with her. And if by any chance she asks about me, tell her that I'm sorry.

Kim Do-Jin

#3. Obviously baffled he scrunched his brows and pinched his lips.

Elle Klass

#4. 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 of privilege, and impoverishment - not accept any of that. Just get in there!

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#5. I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#6. 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 sun, child of Mother Earth and the Mayan galaxy. All the mountain cures and healing waters and winds and junipers run deep in my bloodstream.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#7. Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say,

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#8. While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.

John Taylor

#9. Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

Max Beerbohm

#10. 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 encounter.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#11. The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

Janet Jackson

#12. 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 us notations on paper saying this is what you deserve. You have to invite us to the table because America is ours, too.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#13. Make this day a tree
leaning over the river eternity
and fuss about in its branches.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#14. [Measure for Measure] leaves me with the sense that life is all there is, so we might as well live it as best we can; that being human is not a given something we have to strive for. That the reason we are here is to live and that this involves making many difficult judgements.

Roger Allam

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

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#16. Walking is good for the soul.

Andy Rooney

#17. History does not unfold: it piles up.

Robert Adams

#18. 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, or whatever. That's it. They don't ever go beyond that. That's not what life is.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#19. How much truth can we bear? Our tolerance for carrying the truth is not very high. I mean, the slightest discomfort about truth and we run to our refuge of our jobs and our schools and our friends who keep supporting our blindness.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#20. 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 a life
with everything perfect.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#21. Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#22. The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.

Gordon MacQuarrie

#23. Understanding is the key to everything. To rage, fear, love. If you understand a situation, it's going to make you mad. Or it's going to make you feel fearful. If any of us even had a clue as to what Bush and those people were up to, we'd be running stark crazy mad out of fear.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#24. 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, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

Jimmy Santiago Baca

#25. Death is like the sun. It infuses every part of our lives, but it doesn't make sense to stare at it.

Eric Greitens

#26. He can be High Warlock of my pants.

Cassandra Clare

#27. The silence was a comfortable one, as if they had known each other for a long time. This was a feeling about which Louis had read in books, but which he had never experienced until now.

Stephen King

#28. This perpetual toggling between nothing being new, under the sun, and everything having very recently changed, absolutely, is perhaps the central driving tension of my work.

William Gibson

#29. I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.

Jack Falahee