Salmagundi Submissions Quotes & Sayings

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks. — Michael Dirda

Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state. — Madeleine Albright

stupid america

stupid america, see that
chicano
with a big knife
on his steady hand
he doesn't want to knife you
he wants to sit on a bench
and carve christfigures
but you won't let him.
stupid america, hear that
chicano
shouting curses on the street
he is a poet
without paper and pencil
and since he cannot write
he will explode.
stupid america, remember
that chicano
flunking math and english
he is the picasso
of your western states
but he will die
with one thousand
masterpieces
hanging only from his mind. — Abelardo Delgado

Mercy, how we do so often love to immortalize those despised and forgotten in life. — Timothy Beal

I wanted to feel those words in my mouth as I spoke them aloud. Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something. "My brother is in prison." Those words tasted bitter. — Benjamin Alire Saenz

He felt like a criminal, though the only laws he'd broken were his own, and he wasn't sure which ones they were. — Hanif Kureishi

I never pictured myself as a telenovela galan - never imagined I'd be in a soap opera. — Jencarlos Canela

Without a Prospero-Caliban relationship to balance the Prospero-Ariel one, 'The Tempest' loses much of its resonance. — Robert Gottlieb

of the time, inertia is the most powerful force in government. Those who seek change have to succeed at dozens of potential veto points. Those who seek to prevent change usually have to succeed at only one. — Brendan Williams

Imagine the world as a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw each of us. Adding a shade lighter and darker with each interaction. None would be black or white, either purely absorbing all, or reflecting each. #ColourMeSpotless — Nikhil Sharda