Quotes by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Jimmy Santiago Baca

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?

Iraq

Names

War

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.

Encounters

Honest

Today

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

Fingers

Forgiveness

Tongue

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.

Hurt

Pain

Tired

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.

Jobs

Running

School

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

Dream

Looks

Remnants

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!

Believe

Racism

Responsibility

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.

Children

Home

People

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.

Air

Clouds

Sight

I do know that if you can name certain things and understand them, it allows you to make better choices. Unfortunately, there’s so much misinformation that towers over a person’s head, it’s really difficult to make the right decisions. Consequently, we just go along because it’s way too hard to sift through the information.

Choices

Decision

Names

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Air

America

Animal

Beautiful

Believe

Children

Choices

Clouds

Compassion

Crazy

Decision

Deserve You

Dream

Encounters

Fingers

Forgiveness

Giving

Hands

Home

Honest

Hurt

Inspirational

Iraq

Jobs

Keys

Kids

Literacy

Looks

Mother

Names

Native American

Pain

People

Racism

Reading

Remnants

Responsibility

Running

School

Self

Sight

Significant

Soul

Thinking

Tired

Today

Tongue

War

Writing

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Quotes by Jimmy Santiago Baca

Jimmy Santiago Baca

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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