Something Quotes

My family has always had Cape Verdean pride but I don’t think it was something the kids in the family necessarily understood.

Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.

It authenticates itself. Something inside us knows. This…is what has been sought for, longed for, looked for. This is it. Usually, it’s not what we expected.

I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.

That’s what we’re all doing, all the time, whether we know it or not. Whether we like it or not. Creating something on the spur of the moment with the materials at hand.

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can’t stop.

We all had to learn how to do it. So it’s just something creative people need to get familiar with… not really so scary.

He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.