Quiara Alegria Hudes famous quotes

I just find something to learn in everything.
-- Quiara Alegria Hudes

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I remember getting to college and all of a sudden realizing that feminism was a dirty word to a lot of people and it was baffling to me. I would tell people that I was a feminist and they would look at me and go, "Why?" And that just made me feel more at home in those shoes.
-- Quiara Alegria Hudes

#Dirty #Home #College

People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it's just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles.
-- Quiara Alegria Hudes

#Strong #Writing #Mean

I had some great music teachers who were men, but I think there's something about having these master teachers who were women in my life. That's very meaningful to me and you see it in my work. I write a lot about matriarchs and the pain of it, the beauty of it, the burden of it, the love of it.
-- Quiara Alegria Hudes

#Meaningful #Teacher #Pain

I think all of the decisions I make about my life and writing are the preparation - what I choose to write about and the immersive nature of the lifestyle I choose for playwriting.
-- Quiara Alegria Hudes

#Writing #Thinking #Decision

Each musical finds its own way.
-- Quiara Alegria Hudes

#Musical

Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is.
-- Quiara Alegria Hudes

#Emotional #Novel

If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's a testament to "that's part of our culture, that's part of our history."
-- Quiara Alegria Hudes

#Book #Library #Culture

We're living in a time where we all got to stay woke !

I don't really like ska.

I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens.

With me being in my 40s, I knew who I was.

When I know that I have played as well as I can. It doesn't matter so much whether I have won or lost. But being completely satisfied with myself? That's something that never really happens to me.

I definitely like being in bands with other women because it's just, I don't know, it's just better.

We get things wrong before we get things right.

I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.

There was a time when He was not.

I have to be pretty close to what I am.