Books Quote 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…

— 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…

— Danzy Senna

“much privilege leads to bad manners,”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— Danzy Senna

I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Danzy Senna

Motherhood. It was hard to get lost in anything else completely when children were 3 years old.

— Danzy Senna