Quotes About Change

You ever feel like home is the one place you can't go back to? It's like you promise yourself when you got out of bed and combed your hair that this evening, when I get back I'll be a different woman in a new place. And now you can't go back because the house expects something from you.

every time you reach the edge, the edge move ahead of you like a shadow until the whole world is a ghetto, and you wait.

Maybe because is December. After all, only when we come to Revelation that we take stock of Genesis, right?

You different, Lilith. You have more darkness 'bout you now. You turning into woman, Homer say to her. —Me turning into something, Lilith say.

You ever feel like home is the one place you can't go back to? It's like you promise yourself when you got out of bed and combed your hair that this evening, when I get back I'll be a different woman in a new place. And now you can't go back because the house expects something from you.

Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late.

Learn this, all nice and decent people. An election year commence as soon as the first gunshot buss.

Politicians rise in the east and set in the west and nothing you can change about them.

Can't play it safe when nowhere safe anymore

Jah know, sometimes I don't learn till too late, and to know something too late? Well is better you never know as my mother used to say. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late. So

This Singer think because he come from where we come from that he understand how we live. But he don't understand nothing. Everybody think the way him think when they leave and come back. That everything was exactly how they leave it. But we different. We harder than him and we don't care. He flee before you turn into something like we. And

I see the calm and hear the calm and know the calm can't last. Not for me, not for him, not for Kingston, not for Jamaica. For

Nyka was like a man coming back from things I was yet to go through.

Dead. It sounds final but it's a word missing an ing.

after Tuesday come Wednesday. And what you do on Tuesday change the type of Wednesday that going come to you.

People think it way past the time when anybody can remember who start things first, but don't get the history of the ghetto twist up, decent people. Buntin-Banton and Dishrag start it first. And when PNP win the 1972 election all hell break loose. First

It just happens doesn't it, some point where a man just start living all over you.

I was a fool. I thought you learned the old ways by forgetting the new.

Know something too late? Well, is better you never know, as my mother used to say. Worse, you all present tense and have to deal with sudden past tense all around you. It's like realizing somebody rob you a year late.

The mask, given time, comes to be the face itself

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Un hombre puede cambiar su apariencia y su nombre, pero no puede cambiar su interior.

And yet, as we have discovered, you are someone entirely different," he said gently. "You are no longer Ellyn the Fletcher." "And because of that you no longer love me?" "I will love you as long as I draw breath. But it may not be my right to love you any other way.