Thylias Moss Quotes & Sayings

but the attitude reading and writing
gives you — Thylias Moss

Let heartbreak be alternative to coffe break, five midmorning minutes devoted to emotion. — Thylias Moss

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination. — Thylias Moss

Esmenda Jenkins Dube the first was all about fair
and saw her house as an oasis in the middle
of corruption, saw herself as a missionary
converting stupidity into reason. She thought
that was much more useful than a miracle. — Thylias Moss

She also said that Esmenda Jenkins Dube
would have wanted a northern life,
as far north as north can be, limits of north
where it was so cold nothing there understood hellfire,
and the mountains were white, like full-hipped women
sleeping undisturbed, women of the cold clouds
breathing out more cold clouds that departed their mouths
when they whispered heaven in their northern dreams. — Thylias Moss

the truth is not supposed to free you from the truth,
just from everything else — Thylias Moss

Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else. — Thylias Moss

She was so pale she could have been moonlight. — Thylias Moss

Scared of words? I don't see why
anybody ought to fear words. Words are tools;
you have to know how to use them to get done
the job you want to get done. Can't do the work
if you're scared of the work. — Thylias Moss

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible. — Thylias Moss