Jimmy Santiago Baca Quotes

Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.

I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.

Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

And so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.

And so I pray I am today as honestwith myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter.