Tracy K. Smith Quotes

I know my curiosity as a writer and as a person makes me really interested in moving to parts of the country that I haven't explored through writers' festivals or through the kind of campus visits that I do on a regular basis and engaging with people who may be readers of poetry and may not.

Tracy K. Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 16, 1972

Topics

PoetryPeopleMeMovingCuriosity

I grew up in a secular suburban Jewish household where we only observed the religion on very specific times like a funeral or a Bar Mitzvah.

Jesse Eisenberg

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When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.

Jennifer Coolidge

BestWorldGoingWellOffToes

I always think about race as a part of one's identity, not the whole of one's identity. You don't want it to be the defining characteristic of a character. There has to be more.

Jenny Han

CharacterIdentityThinkYouWant

One of the best decisions we made on the 'Arrow' pilot was to have the Deathstroke mask. Within 30 seconds, you knew you were watching a DC comics show.

Andrew Kreisberg

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I value my privacy a lot.

Matt Lauer

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One is not born a woman, but becomes one.

Simone de Beauvoir

WomanBornBecomes

Early in the second season of 'The Andy Griffith Show,' I ventured a suggestion for a line change to make it sound more 'like the way a kid would say it.' I was just 7 years old. But my idea was accepted, and I remember standing frozen, thrilled at what this moment represented to me.

Ron Howard

ChangeMomentMeRememberEarlySay

I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what.

Miley Cyrus

MeMomMatterSafeKeepHe

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

Louise Bogan

CompetitionMoreHiddenSquareLousy

I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.

Joshua Ferris

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If people would've heard what we were doing back in the clubs in the late '90s, they would be really shocked to find out how country our sound really was back then.

Jay DeMarcus

PeopleDoingBackLateFindCountry

I will wear makeup because I want to look good for myself, but it's not to please other people. It's not so I fit in with the pretty girls or to impress guys.

Daya

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