Joy Kogawa Quotes

#1. From my years of teaching I know it's the children who say nothing who are in trouble more than the ones who complain.

Joy Kogawa

#2. Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene.

Joy Kogawa

#3. A part of being an actress that is sort of frustrating is that the writers get to tell you about your character.

Annabeth Gish

#4. Peter Parker has superpowers, but he still has trouble making rent every month. I identify with that in a way that I don't with, like, Superman, for instance. He's just less interesting because he's too perfect.

Timothy Miller

#5. Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

Joy Kogawa

#6. Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Joy Kogawa

#7. As long as there is insistence of the truth, one cannot know the Vitarag Lord [the enlightened one].

Dada Bhagwan

#8. Life is so short," I said sighing, "the past so long. Shouldn't we turn the page and move on?"
"The past is the future," Aunt Emily shot back

Joy Kogawa

#9. I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.

Isaiah Thomas

#10. Once I came across two ideographs for the word "love." The first contained the root words "heart" and "hand" and "action"-love as hands and heart in action together. The other ideograph, for "passionate love," was formed of "heart," "to tell," and "a long thread.

Joy Kogawa

#11. In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

Joy Kogawa

#12. Stories are one of the greatest gifts we can give to our children. Stories are equipment for life.

Matthew Knisely

#13. I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

Jessamyn West

#14. People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

Joy Kogawa

#15. What can I do? Pray? Would God allow such agony? Sure he would, they would say. To test your faith. She laughed. My heart is crumbling, she said. But I will not give my last love to an imaginary being.

C.J. Anderson