“My father tells me that the further you get away from an experience, the deeper it roots itself inside of you. Don't fool yourself, baby, he said. Time does not heal and history is not progressive.” — 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
“My father tells me that the further you get away from an experience, the deeper it roots itself inside of you. Don't fool yourself,… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
I'm increasingly less interested in classic storylines and that arc that we have come to expect. — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
“Looking at those photographs, I remembered how my parents had never said “I love you” to each other. How they had said only “I… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
