Natasha Trethewey Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 26, 1966

Topics

LoveFatherRelationshipConversation

I believe that thrift is essential to well-ordered living.

John D. Rockefeller

BelieveLivingI BelieveThrift

I don't want to be daft and say I had some spiritual awakening or something, but I really did come of age in Los Angeles, where we recorded the album. I had my own little house and my own little circle and I really got to feel how the city ticks.

Melanie Chisholm

AgeSpiritualCityFeelHouseWant

One of my pet peeves in athleisure today is clothes that make a woman feel square and one-dimensional.

Anna Kaiser

TodayPetWomanFeelClothesSquare

I think there's a knee-jerk reaction to things from parents.

Spike Jonze

ParentsThinkReactionThings

We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.

Moira Kelly

WorldBackWaySearchingAnswers

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

Jazmine Sullivan

LifeWorkGoodLiveExperienceMe

About the 50th hour, I was going to start thinking about the edge of the universe. Is there an edge? Is this an envelope we're living inside of, or no, does it go onto infinity in both time and space? And there's nothing like swimming for 50 hours in the ocean that gets you thinking about things like this.

Diana Nyad

TimeOceanSpaceSwimmingStartYou

An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.

Debbie Ford

FearFuturePastMindInsecurity

It doesn't matter how many times I've played 'Brown Sugar', I never get tired of playing it.

Bobby Keys

TiredSugarMatterNeverPlaying

The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

Arthur C. Brooks

SuccessMoneyPeopleFreeSkills

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

Archibald MacLeish

CityYouLondonOurFeltHouses

I have a hard time repeating myself.

Ariel Rechtshaid

TimeMyselfHardRepeatingHard Time

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