Healing Earthquakes Quotes

“I warn her not to chase money—
chase a dream, like underwater photography
or hiking,
build your own boat and sail around the world,
serve and protect the earth,
that’s the kind of stuff brilliant
minds pursue,
not moneyed soul-shrinking
status sh**—
integrate your heart and soul
into your walk, talk, hands and
thrust your voice up to the sky
as you sing your life out
pure, free, hard and strong
against any wind.”
― Jimmy Santiago Baca, Healing Earthquakes

“So clear off the streets when the sun goes down
because darkness has always been hers,
it’s where she’s lived all her life
and she can see in the dark,
cry in the dark,
eat and love and hurt in the dark,
it’s hers and it’s all we gave her,
so when she catches us there in it,
she doesn’t give a shit who we are, what color we are,
she’ll bring it to us,
make us feel a little of the darkness
she’s felt and lived in all her life.”
― Jimmy Santiago Baca, Healing Earthquakes

“From birth my tongue has had a fire
for communication
with trees and dirt and water”
― Jimmy Santiago Baca, Healing Earthquakes