Occupation: Writer Birth: February 22, 1900 Death: November 14, 1996
Money is only money, beans tonight and steak tomorrow. So long as you can look yourself in the eye..
Memory in America suffers amnesia..
These are the stories that never, never die, that are carried like seed into a new country, are told to you and me and make in us new and lasting str….
Linear thinking is patriarchal..
I am luminous with age..
Suddenly many movements are going on within me, many things are happening, there is an almost unbearable sense of sprouting, of bursting encasements,….
Pears cannot ripen alone. So we ripened together..
The body repeats the landscape. They are the source of each other and create each other..
They never die, who have the future in them..
It's not the suffering of birth, death, love that the young reject, but the suffering of endless labor without dream, eating the spare bread in bitte….
What happens in a strike happens not to one person alone.... It is a crisis with meaning and potency for all and prophetic of a future. The elements ….
It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur..
An abyss seems to have opened between the intellectual cosmopolites of culture and the people, hungry for word and meaning..
Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes..
Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life..
Lie in the sun with the child in your flesh shining like a jewel. Dream and sing, pagan, wise in your vitals. Stand still like a fat budding tree, li….
The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors..
Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life..
You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door..
Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?.
A good civilization gives the greatest possible scope to the common passions and makes them intelligible among the great number of people..