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, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away… — 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
