Chantel DaCosta > Chantel's Quotes

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.”
― Lester Bangs

“Tell your story. Don't try and tell the stories that other people can tell. Any starting writer starts out with other people's voices. But as quickly as you can start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there will always be better writers than you and there will always be smarter writers than you, but you are the only you.”
― Neil Gaiman

“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Poetic Principle

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I said, “All along I have been wondering how you got to be the way you are. Just how it was that you got to be the way you are.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

“it was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; Columbus never set foot there but only named it in passing, after a church in Spain.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

“view that was unknown to me. At the time I was so ashamed I could hardly make a reply, for I had come to believe that people in my position in the world should know everything about the place they are from. I know this: it was discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1493; Columbus never set foot there but only named it in passing, after a church in Spain. He could not have known that he would have so many things to name, and I imagined how hard he had to rack his brain after he ran out of names honoring his benefactors, the saints he cherished, events important to him.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

“A task like that would have killed a thoughtful person, but he went on to live a very long life.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

“I wish I could love someone so much that I would die from it.”
― Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy