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Joy Kogawa quotes: In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.

Joy Kogawa quotes: Life is so short," I said sighing, "the past so long. Shouldn't we turn the page and move on?" "The past is the future," Aunt Emily shot back

Life is so short," I said sighing, "the past so long. Shouldn't we turn the page and move on?"
"The past is the future," Aunt Emily shot back

Joy Kogawa quotes: Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

Joy Kogawa quotes: Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene.

Don't deny the past. Remember everything. If you're bitter, be bitter. Cry it out! Scream! Denial is gangrene.

Joy Kogawa quotes: From my years of teaching I know it's the children who say nothing who are in trouble more than the ones who complain.

From my years of teaching I know it's the children who say nothing who are in trouble more than the ones who complain.

Joy Kogawa quotes: People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

Joy Kogawa quotes: Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.