Top 62 Quotes by Natasha Trethewey

About Natasha Trethewey

These are some quotes by American author Natasha Trethewey Poet, who was born on April 26, 1966.

My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My white father and black mother.

Natasha Trethewey

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

Natasha Trethewey

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

I want to be the best advocate and promoter for poetry that I can be.

Natasha Trethewey

I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.

Natasha Trethewey

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

Natasha Trethewey

As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.

As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my father. Because we're both writers, we're having a very intimate conversation in a very public forum.

Natasha Trethewey

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.

Natasha Trethewey

My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

Natasha Trethewey

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Natasha Trethewey

I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.

Natasha Trethewey

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