"Writers, especially those of us with roots in……" — Dinaw Mengestu
"Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us."
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Dinaw Mengestu
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23 Quotes by Dinaw Mengestu
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There are those who wake up each morning to conquer the day, and then there are those of us who…
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It's hard sometimes to remember why we do anything in the first place. It's nice to think there's a purpose,…
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It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not…
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The world around us is alive, he would have said, with our emotions and thoughts, and the space between any…
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in…
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The imagined memories had to have as much weight as the real, or we had to at least pretend they…
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At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came…
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We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away,…
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I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where…
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Don't think about how your characters sound, but how they see. Watch the world through their eyes - study the…
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You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be.…
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I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
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More Allegiances Quotes
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If moral statements are about something, then the universe is not quite as science suggests it is, since physical theories,…
— David Berlinski
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Free agency screws everybody's allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It's really hard.
— Bill Goldberg
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We must shift our allegiances from fear to curiosity, from attachment to letting go, from control to trust, and from…
— Angeles Arrien
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Then, in the 1980's, came the paroxysm of downsizing, and the very nature of the corporation was thrown into doubt.…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but…
— Manly Hall
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
— J M Coetzee
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One of the most beautiful things about 'Game of Thrones' is it's told from so many different points of view,…
— Richard Madden
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Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of…
— Dennis Prager
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A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the…
— Joyce Cary
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and…
— Tatiana Maslany
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Almost none of the poetries I admire stick to their labels, native or adopted ones. Rather, they are vagrant in…
— C.D. Wright
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