Renee Gillette

“Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“So don't be frightened, dear friend, if a sadness confronts you larger than any you have ever known, casting its shadow over all you do. You must think that something is happening within you, and remember that life has not forgotten you; it holds you in its hand and will not let you fall. Why would you want to exclude from your life any uneasiness, any pain, any depression, since you don't know what work they are accomplishing within you?”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids

“Everyone had something to offer and nobody appeared to have much money. Even the successful seemed to have just enough to live like extravagant bums.”
― Patti Smith, Just Kids