Best 24 quotes of Cameron Conaway on MyQuotes

A counter to a jab is a left hook. What’s the counter to prejudice?

A poet could kill the dead.

Blood cannot be without dancing. There is no dancing without blood.

Concrete breathes sun's heat.

Fighting and writing’s deepest layers of beauty lie not only in the physical and mental realms of what we know, but also as an incognizable instinct, a realm we will never fully know but will forever feel.

Fights begin and end with handshakes.

How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?

I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.

In other words, I tasted a different drug. A drug called progress.

In The Land of Poetry and Fighting, Efficiency rules the throne. I try to live here, so I shave my head because hair is dead and dead is inefficient.

It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.

It’s too bad war gets all the attention; it’s too bad the plant is easier to see than the root.

It was evening and would be when I woke. No matter. From the maple tree the Red-tail spoke.

My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything in the cage could. My opponent, my fight, would be against the slipping aspects of American society.

Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.

...real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.

So much of control is not authoritative action but mindful waiting.

Sweat seems to bleed / like pride from their bones.

There was a sound you could smell / like you were inhaling tomorrow.

The storm before the calm.

The taste of moon's song.

The weight of wait.

Unreality cooled reality’s burn.