Skip to content

This was new, the consciousness that she might have a future beyond herself.

— Kathleen Alcalá

Another quote →

More quotes by Kathleen Alcalá

She could drop her shyness the way she dropped it to recite a speech or a poem, then step back into it like a cloak.

When children went every day to school to learn to live in a world that no longer existed.

After all, what is the passing of time but a diamond turned to dust?

This is how they took back the world - step by step, song by song.

In a way, artists are messengers between worlds, bringing ideas and symbols from one to the other.

The Desert Remembers My Name: On Family and Writing (2007)

All Kathleen Alcalá quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Kathleen Alcalá (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.