"My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was……" — Natasha Trethewey
"My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866."
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31 Quotes by Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey has 31 quotes on this site.
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A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.
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What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.
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What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.
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I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity…
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Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her…
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First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty…
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When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very…
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship…
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There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the…
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I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor.…
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You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been.…
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When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
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More April Quotes
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In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of…
— Tony Blair
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April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
— Hal Borland
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Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
— Robert Browning
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There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in…
— William C. Bryant
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I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place…
— Naomi Campbell
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I gave birth to my first son in April 1986. I thought it would be a good goal to get…
— Kim Alexis
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer…
— Thomas Carlyle
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In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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"I call them april babies cause they fools"
— Lil Wayne
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The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. (2nd April 1945)
— Adolf Hitler
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With the defeat of the Reich and pending the emergence of the Asiatic, the African and, perhaps, the South American…
— Adolf Hitler
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Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of…
— William Shakespeare
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