Chrystos famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.
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They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.
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Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.
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Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.
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Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.
-- Chrystos
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The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn't true.
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The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.
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If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.
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Behind the man is the Tree of Life, bearing twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman; the serpent is twining round it.
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I despise people who depend on these things [heroin and cocaine]. If you really want a mind-altering experience, look at a tree.
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The tree of life for me is a symbol of abundance and eternal life.
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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
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A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.
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The flower's are gone when the Fruits appear to ripen.
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What gardening teaches us is that if you plant things, they'll come up. But you have to be willing to wait for them to bear fruit because things are seasonal.
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