Quotes for All
The house has to be clean and in order because I have to be able to sift through the creative disorder in my mind. The mental disorder that I’m exploring has to bounce off the walls. It has to go in and out of different rooms. If the room is not in order, then I … Read more
babies ain’t cute / hungry. Alexis De Veaux
Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat. Alexis De Veaux
Politics is a word spelled N-O-W. Alexis De Veaux
Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to. Alexis De Veaux
Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed. Alexis De Veaux
Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages. Alexis De Veaux
I don’t see what people get from hating other people unless it’s a special thing I just ain’t hip to. Alexis De Veaux
I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I’m not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken … Read more
Survival is a four letter word. Alexis De Veaux