Quotes About Perception

We don't own truth. Truth is truth and nothing you can do about it even if you hide it, or kill it, or even tell it. It was truth before you open your mouth and say, That there is a true thing.

Seem that if baby get left in manger he would scratch up, bite up and dead by the third day. But white people think this be the greatest thing. The baby grow up and they kill him, and white people think this be even greater. It make plenty sense that white people would get so much mirth and joy out of this 'cause nobody kill for fun like backra.

Y dijo: ¿sabes por qué me llaman Chistoso? Porque nunca estoy pa bromas.

Sure good is good, but good is something that nobody know. Good is a ghost. You can't get pocket money from good. Jamaica better off bad, because that type of bad work.

The world is fickle about witches.' 'The wold is fickle about women.

No thought is wise just because you have it, girl.

Listen. Dead people never stop talking. Maybe because death is not death at all, just a detention after school. You know where you're coming from and you're always returning from it. You know where you're going though you never seem to get there and you're just dead. Dead.

A bad smell, like a good one, can follow you into tomorrow.

Your light blacker than black. I know you.

Third-eye magic? Only man need a third eye. Woman fine with two, sometimes one.

He was not a dark man, but not light either. His color was a nebulous thing, so like his voice, which was too low to be weak but too reedy to be commanding. In a town that preferred things black or white, grayness such as his was not welcome.

There is one, a girl, I know she hates me, and it bothers me, because I see with her eyes and she is right.

Stop talking about truth - I fed you truth all along, but as I said before, what you want is story.

The only difference between who is a witch and who is not is one man's mouth,' say the cook.

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

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.

I have always found it puzzling that men believe it perfectly acceptable to take their pleasure where they may without guilt or recriminations, but when women do the same, they are branded whores and trulls.

Dante caught the look in Pitt's eyes. "Don't say it." "Not a word. Not about the helmsman or the guns you left behind." "She's still a woman, dammit," Dante hissed. "It doesn't seem to bother her. Why does it bother you?

Ellen followed his progress, thinking of all those young men who believed it was fashionable to wear their pants hanging half off their butts and loose enough to fit an entire basketball team. They should see the way a real man wore jeans.

Ain't lost unless yus don't know where yus are," Jim grumbled. "I know'd where we are, it's jest that no one else does.

I only told you about it because I thought I might get a laugh out of you for once even if it wasn't the truth, Jessie. Things don't have to be true to talk about 'em, you know.

I didn't know! I was here with you all the time. How could I know you were so alone?

Why do you have to know so much about things, Jessie? There's just not that much to things that I could ever see.