5 Quotes by Sharon Doubiago

The local paper is called the World.

The smaller man said again, 'See the Buddha in everyone.'How different, I thought, that is from Brakhage, who says it is the artist's business to discover the particularity that distinguishes you from all others. Your virtue. Your vision that makes you separate from others. I remembered that he quoted Robert Duncan. 'Soul is not universal. It is a created-creative event.

When I was a girlthe books I read were by men.

I am five, I will never understandwhy we are stranded in our selvesbut in this moment I knowmy own storyis understanding our singlenessthat I am destined to move my body and timeinto the body-timethe storyof Others.

She is the one who hides her namein every arroyo and chaparral wash,like the Egyptian sungod that bears her name,Amon-Ra.