"Just Above My Head" Quotes
A talented musician navigates the complexities of race, religion, and sexuality in 1960s America.
fiction | 597 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious, one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers.
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
