Best 5 quotes of Toi Derricotte on MyQuotes

I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.

Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are unlike any in our literature.

A picture in a book, a lynching. The bland faces of men who watch a Christ go up in flames, smiling, as if he were a hooked fish, a felled antelope, some wild thing tied to boards and burned. His charred body gives off light--a halo burns out of him. His face is scorched featureless; the hair matted to the scalp like feathers. One man stands with his hand on his hip, another with his arm slung over the shoulder of a friend, as if this moment were large enough to hold affection.