Mindscape Quotes

“You see what you think you see. You find what you look for. If you can’t imagine it, it won’t happen for you.”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“Recommend: Live well, live poetry, live science.”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“Who knows what will be true tomorrow?”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“We have what Martha Graham has called “blood memory” that transcends those things that can be put into words and must instead be understood in the marrow of the bones, the rhythm of the heart, the fullness of the womb. Pearl Cleage”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“People be past masters at imaginin’ the end of the world—Armageddon, Ragnarök, Götterdämmerung, Apocalypse Now, the Big Crunch—doom and gloom in the twilight of the Gods—but folk’re hard put to imagine a new day where we get on with each other, where we tear it up but keep it real. Why is that? It’s an ole question, but I gotta keep askin’. —Geraldine Kitt, Junk Bonds of the Mind”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“According to the Romans: Ars est celare artem—the nature of art is to conceal, but I think art’s about revealing, showing us what we couldn’t see in what we always see.”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“We believe in prayer, in the power of words to transform reality,” Thandiwe said. “The mind feasts on metaphors.”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“Celestina said to “name” the universe that supports our best selves. If I understand her, that means you should define your world and resist others who would confine you in theirs.”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“Was der Bauer nicht kennt, das frißt er nicht. What the farmer doesn’t know, he won’t eat.”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“I shouldn’t be a colonized woman livin’ insida somebody else’s story, need to write my own story.”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“Competition is savage. What story hasn’t been told a billion times? We don’t have unlimited thrills and spills to offer. Probably boil it down to six or seven plots. The ancients had virgin territory to mark with genius—they didn’t face an audience glutted on spectacle and addicted to hype. Fart and it was a great insight back then.”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“If the universe spoke the whole truth to us, our minds would explode.”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“Was für ein Wunder ist das Leben!” Awa brushed icy lips against Elleni’s bruised forehead, then pushed her out into the gathering darkness. “Don’t let the miracles catch you off guard.”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“Loving yourself when you’re down and dirty is hard, but loving yourself into the next transformation, that’s the real trick.”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“Time and space are modes by which we think, and not conditions in which we live. Albert Einstein”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“Aboru, Aboye, Aboşişe. May what we offer carry, be accepted, may what we offer bring about change.” The old Yoruba words”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“Old age ain’t for sissies.”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape

“Life is by nature creative, drawn to novelty, driven by challenge, grounded in history.”
― Andrea Hairston, Mindscape