"Creative writing is ethnic studies, is gender and sexual studies, is political science, is religion, is history, is sociology. The dichotomy is a sham. All art is political art. Everything less is denial, denial being the most political of all." — Rosa Chavez, Maya K’iche’-Kaqchikel poet, born 1980
"Mothering, for me, means willpower, fortitude, grit. It is the transcendent power to multiply oneself, succeeded by the supreme humility to serve that second self." — Rosa Chavez, Maya K’iche’-Kaqchikel poet, born 1980
"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." — Anton Chekhov, Russian author, born 1860
"Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my mistress." — Anton Chekhov, Russian author, born 1860
"I wish I could write an elegy for my sadness because it has suddenly died." — Chen Chen, American poet, born 1989
"For every minute you are sad, you are losing a whole 60 seconds of happiness." — Chen Chen, American poet, born 1989
"A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt." — G. K. Chesterton, English writer, born 1874
"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land." — G. K. Chesterton, English writer, born 1874
"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel." — G. K. Chesterto, English writer, born 1874
"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." — G. K. Chesterton, English writer, born 1874
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried." — G. K. Chesterton, English writer, born 1874
"The bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." — G. K. Chesterton, English writer, born 1874
"In the main, and from the beginning, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic." — G. K. Chesterton, English writer, born 1874