Quotes from Thylias Moss

Race is a layer of being, but not a culmination.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

She was so pale she could have been moonlight.

every day is an anniversary; every minute, a commemoration so there is no reason to ever be sober

but the attitude reading and writing gives you

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.

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.