Andrea Gibson Quotes

When they told me god was always watching I said, Who wants to worship a diary thief? I didn’t dare say who wants to worship anyone

The hardest people in the world to forgive are the people we once were.

"My "yes" never fit into the "no" of this world."

My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in here.

I decided I was going to read only social justice poetry through my entire set. But when I was making my set list it hit me that the simple existence of the word 'she' in my love poem made it a political poem. Isn't that criminal? Isn't it criminal that love is a political thing? That the heart is a political thing?

Fear is only a verb if you let it be.

Don’t you dare let go of my hand.

Now my heart is a pressed flower in a tattered Bible. It is the one verse you can trust.

Depression [verb]

1. to put on
your best outfit
and feel
like you're dressing
a wound.

Poetry is the pen-and-paper version of paying wondrous attention.

We were all born on days when too many people died in terrible ways,

I know David argued with the chisel. I know he said, 'Make me softer.

She's heard stories of Vietnam vets
who can still feel the tingling of their amputated limbs.
She's wondering how many women are walking around this world
feeling the tingling of their amputated wings,
remembering what it was like to fly, to sing.

Before I met you, my joy had such an early curfew it didn't bother going out.

Here, I shall be useless.
The world can go on without me.
Here I shall be held by love.

Coming into our own humanity often takes enormous effort, commitment, and bravery.