16 quotes found
“In order to observe the movement of your own mind and heart, of your whole being, you must have a free mind, not a mind that agrees and disagrees, taking sides in an argument, disputing over mere w...”
“So if you understand that where there is a search for pleasure there must be pain, live that way if you want to, but don't just slip into it. If you want to end pleasure, though, which is to end pa...”
“holy, holy, holy dawn. my hips rocking into your face. the edge inviting. your name like dry wine on my tongue. your name branded into my inner thigh.”
“I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. ”
“I am six years old and instead of celebrating with birthday cakes, I chew on a piece of charcoal. ”
“a raped girl is bad for the family: it shows that they cant protect their women; that they have little social standing; and that theyre not respectable. Its worse for the victim because once a woma...”
“Another of them died last night. His body was in the bazaar this morning. It lay, with a collecting bowl at its feet, on the charpoy that is reserved for those who die without money or family to bu...”
“The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties ...”
“Nonfiction. I didnt choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing.”
“When youre speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.”
“Friendship is greater than the colonial and dominating race ideologies of hundreds of years." -"Some of My Best Friends”
“The difference between the ordinary and extraordinary is the extra. Go the extra mile and enter your extraordinary success”
“a raped girl is bad for the family: it shows that they can’t protect their women; that they have little social standing; and that they’re not respectable. It’s worse for the victim because once a w...”
“Nonfiction. I didn’t choose it as much as it chose me. It squatted and birthed me one raw winter day then jerked me up and set me to scribing.”
“When you’re speaking in the truest, most intimate voice about your life, you are speaking with the universal voice.”
