16 Quotes by Kei Miller

After all, don't care how you want to sit there and deny the knowledge of River Mumma sitting on her rock - don't care how you deny the knowledge of fallen angels who can jump into your body as they please, or the knowledge of ancestors who sit beside your bed and watch when they not harkening on to the sounds of drumming - don't care how you deny any of it, all of it is still true. All of them things still exist, because them do not need the permission of your belief.

To know a man properly, you must know the shape of his hurt - the specific wound around which his person has been formed like a scab.

She knew that for people to be people, they have to be believe in something. They had to believe that something was worth believing in. And they had to carry that thing in their hearts and guard it , for once you believed in something , in anything at all, Babylon would try its damnedest to find out what that thing was, and they would try to take it from you.

a hymn then not to birds but to words which themselves feel like feather and wing and light, as if it were on the delicacy of such sweet syllables that flocks take flight.

How much have we not seen or felt or heard because there was no word for it -- at least no word we knew? We speak to navigate ourselves away from dark corners and we become, each one of us, cartographers.

Know this, that lions who trod don't worry bout reaching Zion. In time is Zion that reach to the lions.

And the ras saysit's all a Babylon conspiracyde bloodclawt immappancy of dis world—maps which throughout time havegripped like girdlesto make his people smaller thanthey were.

Know then that every heartbless given is collected by Jah like mickle and muckle,or like a basketful of cocoa, and comes back to you like a dividend.

Some days have more roads than others, and some roads more distance, so that when a woman complains how long the day is, maybe she is counting its roads rather than its hours.