Lisa Sisneros

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive. Where have we heard it before? Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self-esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls.

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon