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> [I was influenced growing up by everything from Harlequin romances to Fedor Dostoyevsky and Albert Camus, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and later Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, bell hooks.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/i-was-influenced-growing-up-by-everything-from-harlequin-romances-to/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

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## Other authors on James Baldwin

## More by Danzy Senna

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/i-didn-t-read-about-it-for-school-it-was-just-for-myself-i-was/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/my-father-s-subject-the-relationship-between-history-and-the/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [“much privilege leads to bad manners,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/much-privilege-leads-to-bad-manners/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [Writing New People I was thinking a lot about the era that I came of age - the 90's. Brooklyn, in particular, this moment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/writing-new-people-i-was-thinking-a-lot-about-the-era-that-i-came-of/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/when-there-is-a-gap-between-your-face-and-your-race-between-the-baby/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/it-s-funny-when-you-leave-your-home-and-wander-really-far-you-always/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/i-m-felt-i-was-writing-about-love-and-desire-and-community-and/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/i-don-t-like-stories-that-are-too-neat-and-too-resolved-i-think/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [“She has decided all university campuses are alike- the sense of possibility and stasis. She thinks this too: all graduate students, if you look…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/she-has-decided-all-university-campuses-are-alike-the-sense-of/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [“We were lying on our backs in the foothills, watching the sky and making a list called "Never." All the things we would never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/we-were-lying-on-our-backs-in-the-foothills-watching-the-sky-and/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/it-s-funny-when-you-leave-your-home-and-wander-really-far-you-always-2/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/motherhood-it-was-hard-to-get-lost-in-anything-else-completely-when/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/my-father-tells-me-that-the-further-you-get-away-from-an-experience/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [I'm increasingly less interested in classic storylines and that arc that we have come to expect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/i-m-increasingly-less-interested-in-classic-storylines-and-that-arc/)

[Danzy Senna](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danzy-senna/)

> [“Looking at those photographs, I remembered how my parents had never said “I love you” to each other. How they had said only “I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danzy-senna/looking-at-those-photographs-i-remembered-how-my-parents-had-never/)

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