Jimmy Santiago BacaBeing a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.371Humanity
Jimmy Santiago BacaEvery poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man, in the poem I transform myself into a woman.373Sadness
Jimmy Santiago BacaI emerged from the black oil pools in the forgotten house of dreams in the wild backcountry of the heart. I am heir to the sun, child of Mother Earth and the Mayan galaxy. All the… ▶355Love
Jimmy Santiago BacaI am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again.211Hope
Jimmy Santiago BacaAnd so I pray I am today as honest with myself, with life all around me and below and above me, with all who I encounter. ✨ Jimmy Santiago Baca (2004). Winter Poems Along th… ▶266LifeTruth
Jimmy Santiago BacaI culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks on my nerves; objects made impr… ▶2910LifeTime
Jimmy Santiago BacaLiteracy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say.2610Life
