Joshua Whitehead Quotes

“Now living has become a series of hauntings, poltergeists, revenants that flock to the entrances to my ceremonial spaces and enter without regard or invitation.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

“I constanly ask myself if all writing is a form of mourning.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

“The land, like the body, teaches us the fundamental rule of ending: that no such thing exists, no suffix of "-ed" shall ever touch the prefix of "pre-" and even a body in its most cellular state knows this.
We always begin at the end.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays

“Sometimes, I think of mourning as if it were a haunting.”
― Joshua Whitehead, Making Love with the Land: Essays