Bright Felon Quotes

“God's true language: Hebrew. Latin. Arabic. Sanskrit.

As if utterance fit into the requirements of the human mouth.

I learned how to find the new moon by looking for the circular absence of stars. [...]

I learned God's true language is only silence and breath.”
― Kazim Ali, Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities

“That's what I would say about poetry and prayer.

That god or audience--the intended direction of both of those--we wish and wish are real.”
― Kazim Ali, Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities

“I was already too afraid to say anything.

I can't even properly say my own name,”
― Kazim Ali, Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities

“In the one place everyone looks like me--has my name--i am the most foreign.”
― Kazim Ali, Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities