“...love comes from the head and not the heart. Of the entire body, only the head matters.”
“Good stories come from the heart, not the head.”
“Mattie felt drained, as though someone had stood her on her head and poured her entire heart and soul right out of her body.”
“Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.”
“At April'Toss your gay heads,Brown girl trees;Toss your gay lovely heads;Shake your brown slim bodies;Stretch your brown slim arms;Stretch your brown slim toes.Who knows better than we,With the dark, dark bodies,What it meansWhen April comes a-laughing and a-weepingOnce againAt our hearts?”
“Because Spanish is a feeling-based language that comes first from the heart, just as English is a thinking-based language that comes first from the head.”