Chrystos Quotes

• They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.

  Chrystos

  Book, Museums, Library

  Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

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• Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.

  Chrystos

  Thinking, Culture, Disease

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• Our sacred beliefs have been made pencils / names of cities / gas stations / My knee is wounded so badly that I limp constantly / Anger is my crutch / I hold myself upright with it / My knee is wounded / see / How I Am Still Walking.

  Chrystos

  Cities, Names, Knees

  Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

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• Depression is a very sensible reaction to just about everything we live in now.

  Chrystos

  Depression, Reactions, Sensible

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• The grapevine should be named after a more bitter fruit. It should be called the grapefruit tree.

  Chrystos

  Gossip, Tree, Fruit

  9 Copy quote

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