I definitely feel like when I write a book it's not my job to police or guide the readers. The book and the characters don't belong to me anymore. If that makes sense. — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
In terms of music, each novel is different but I usually find my way into an era through the music. In this novel the New People, I listened to a lot of 90s hip-hop, which was just so genius. Also,… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I didn't read about it for school. It was just for myself. I was interested in cults in general but Jonestown was the most… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“My father's subject: the relationship between history and the individual. He believes everybody is an 'excretion' of his or her environment. That's the word… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Writing New People I was thinking a lot about the era that I came of age - the 90's. Brooklyn, in particular, this moment… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home,… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader. — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“She has decided all university campuses are alike- the sense of possibility and stasis. She thinks this too: all graduate students, if you look… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“We were lying on our backs in the foothills, watching the sky and making a list called "Never." All the things we would never… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home,… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old. — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
