Quote by Danielle Ganek Download Open image ““A literary fetish is the new black”” — Danielle Ganek ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“How shall I typify what happened? Passion play? Somewhat. Weird tale? Indubitably. Horror story? Pretty close. Grotesque melodrama? Certainly. Black comedy? Your point of… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.” — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“Shout out to all the Black writers who push the world forward by sharing the stories, lives, history, imaginations and magic of black culture.… — Blitberry Copy Share Image
“Here, finally, was a woman on a quest for her own identity and, unlike so many other questing figures in black literature, her journey… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
“A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act, even if I… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
“I delved especially into black writers. Their analogies were relevant to my own experiences, and I understood them better for that.” — Tepilit Ole Saitoti Copy Share Image
“Literature takes us away from our grey everyday experience, but brings us back enriched with new sensibilities.” — Willie van Peer Copy Share Image
“And the lives of these old black women were synthesized in their eyes- a puree of tragedy and humor, wickedness and serenity, truth and… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and… — Gregorio C. Brillantes Copy Share Image
Literature has been a treacherous site for black Americans because literary production has been so tied with the project of proving our humanity through… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
The beauty of the literary art, the grappling with the black church, the wrestling with one's identity in the bosom of a complicated black… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“We take creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“We need creative license with the fictional narratives that become our memories. Anthologized, these are the tales that become the story of your life.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“(about divorce): Sometimes you have to scrap your first draft and start over.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“You are the sole author of the story of your life, my dear. Make it a good one.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“We're all storytellers. We choose to tell ourselves the kind of tale we want to hear.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“We all tell our stories the way we want to. And sometimes those stories have nothing to do with reality.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“How well can we really know another person? People can be in your lives for years- they can fill your lives. But all you… — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“Peck prided herself on being well-mannered, often to the point of rudeness.” — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
“You could BE somebody," he said, focusing a tight shot on her face. "Honey," she said, mugging for the camera like an old time… — Danielle Ganek Copy Share Image
