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“No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
― It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider
“No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.”
― Krik? Krak!
― Krik? Krak!
“Mineral cactai,
quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls,
the bird that punctures space,
thirst, tedium, clouds of dust,
impalpable epiphanies of wind.
The pines taught me to talk to myself.
In that garden I learnedto send myself off.
Later there were no gardens. ”
― A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems
quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls,
the bird that punctures space,
thirst, tedium, clouds of dust,
impalpable epiphanies of wind.
The pines taught me to talk to myself.
In that garden I learnedto send myself off.
Later there were no gardens. ”
― A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems
“A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that.”
― Tar Baby: A Novel
― Tar Baby: A Novel
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