Poetry Quote by Jewelle Gomez — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We’re only instruments of love, flowing through heaps of pain hoping one day we’d hatch a passion of our own.”

“Night”

“Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.”

“Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.”

“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.”

“So this is what I am”