"When I was born here in Gulfport in……" — Natasha Trethewey
"When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to drive around town with my parents, to be out in public with my parents."
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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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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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I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.
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I put music on and I drive around town.
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