Corpus Christi Quotes

“But a dauntless faith believes”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

“Oranges of Hiroshima - CORPUS CHRISTI -

Goodbye
shores of peach blossoms and swallows.
Goodbye to the godzila of my lips
drifting from your lips.
Goodbye to the galaxies
that expand towards the interior of a grain of sand.
Goodbye to the sea
of your smiles
in the salt of my thorns.
Goodbye son of man!
Goodbye shores of peach blossoms and swallows.”
― Daniel Wamba

“Mary: What are you teaching Him at that public high school of yours, Mrs. McElroy?

Joshua: She's teaching Me that this town is the armpit of Western civilization.”
― Terrence McNally, Corpus Christi

“Patricia: What they did was stupid and cruel and why I am going to write the president of the United States telling him that if there is any place in this country where nuclear bomb testing should be allowed, it's Corpus Christi, Texas.”
― Terrence McNally, Corpus Christi

“Finding and studying photographs from Texas - Houston, Austin, Corpus Christi - and Richmond, Virginia felt like time travel; I wondered what it would be like to stand on hallowed ground like Houston’s Emancipation Park or Austin’s Eastwoods Park and celebrate freedom with fellow Black folks.”
― Tieshka K Smith, Compositions of Black Joy: A Visual Chronicle of the Philadelphia Juneteenth Festival