Natasha Trethewey Quotes

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

• Up
• Black
• Myself
• Saying

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Women
  • History

• The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Vision

• Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Boy
  • Inside
  • Little

• I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Life
  • Age
  • Parents

• 'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Character
  • Want
  • Compliment

• Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Up
  • Happy

• Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Time
  • Work
  • Game

• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
  • Everyone

• Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Stories

• Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Man
  • Black
  • Traditions

• The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Advice
  • Give
  • Someone

• I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Always
  • Rules

• I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Up
  • Important
  • Team

• We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Want
  • Underestimate

• A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Losing

• When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.

  

  Jason Reitman
  • People
  • Hope
  • Small

• What regresses, never progresses.

  

  Umar
  • Progress
  • Inspiring

• I've never seen myself as a 'girl driver.' I'm just a driver.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Girl
  • Myself
  • Never

• When I was young, all the books were about a Mary Jane and the football player and the prom and ending up with the quiet guy and making your mom happy.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Guy

• We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

  

  Margaret Spellings
  • Relationship
  • Goals
  • Achievement

• 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
  • Up
  • Black
  • Myself