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Jimmy Santiago Baca Quotes

We’re all self-destructive when we’re young. We all rebel. If we don’t, there’s something wrong. But when a Chicano kid’s in a rebellious state, he has nowhere to go but to put himself in jeopardy with the police. When a kid who has some class privilege rebels, he’s in a beautiful room and he can buy these horrible CDs and drugs. He’s buffered from being a criminal Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Americans would have a right to go to war with the Iraqis if we could name one author from Iraq. It disturbs me that we’re going to war with somebody we know absolutely nothing about. Name one Iraqi poet, one Iraqi woman activist, one Iraqi singer. Name one Iraqi novelist. You can’t. And how can you go kill someone you don’t know anything about? Picture Quote #1

Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue Picture Quote #1

I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks on my nerves; objects made impressions on my sight as if in clay. There, in the soft language, life centered and ground itself in me and I was flowing with the grain of the universe. Language placed my life experiences in a new context, freeing me for the moment to become with air as air, with clouds as clouds, from which new associations arose to engage me in present life in a more purposeful way Picture Quote #1

I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again Picture Quote #1

I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint, the chips and cracks. How many hands had gripped them? I wondered. What lives were attached to those hands, what dreams were shattered, what sorrows were they trying to squeeze out of their souls? Picture Quote #1

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We’re all self-destructive when we’re young. We all rebel. If we don’t, there’s something wrong. But when a Chicano kid’s in a rebellious state, he has nowhere to go but to put himself in jeopardy with the police. When a kid who has some class privilege rebels, he’s in a beautiful room and he can buy these horrible CDs and drugs. He’s buffered from being a criminal (Jimmy Santiago Baca Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Americans would have a right to go to war with the Iraqis if we could name one author from Iraq. It disturbs me that we’re going to war with somebody we know absolutely nothing about. Name one Iraqi poet, one Iraqi woman activist, one Iraqi singer. Name one Iraqi novelist. You can’t. And how can you go kill someone you don’t know anything about? (Jimmy Santiago Baca Quotes) Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say (Jimmy Santiago Baca Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue (Jimmy Santiago Baca Quotes) I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks on my nerves; objects made impressions on my sight as if in clay. There, in the soft language, life centered and ground itself in me and I was flowing with the grain of the universe. Language placed my life experiences in a new context, freeing me for the moment to become with air as air, with clouds as clouds, from which new associations arose to engage me in present life in a more purposeful way (Jimmy Santiago Baca Quotes) I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again (Jimmy Santiago Baca Quotes) I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of paint, the chips and cracks. How many hands had gripped them? I wondered. What lives were attached to those hands, what dreams were shattered, what sorrows were they trying to squeeze out of their souls? (Jimmy Santiago Baca Quotes)