50 Quotes by Terrance Hayes

I am not going to describe her face because I want you to think of her as a bride.

It’s not the bad people who are brave I fear, it’s the good people who are afraid.

Trouble is one of the ways we discover the complexities Of the soul.

I wish I could weep the way my teacher did as he read us Molly Bloom’s soliloquy of yes.

I’m a time lord. My armor is flesh and spirit. I carry a flag bearing a different nation on each side. I carry money bearing the face of my assassins.

Can you remember the womb? How, in the moments before birth, The lines were washed from the map That told the route you’d come?

Give the world half of what Nina Simone gave it, and you have lived an exceptional life.

It might be the white woman or man our son or daughter will marry and the white woman or man our grandson or granddaughter will marry, all of them wading into the future until one of our line claims to be Sicilian. Leave instructions: the granddaughter of our granddaughter shall be named Cicily.

You will never assassinate my ghosts.