Quotes
Authors
Danzy Senna
"It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere." --
Source : Danzy Senna (2013). “From Caucasia, with Love”, p.315, A&C Black
Danzy Senna
#Home Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Want Quotes
“When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.”
“I know him...of course.”
“Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple ways too, have it in some form and in some degree. It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission. If we abandon that mission under stress we shall abandon it forever, for stress will not cease. Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that is the essence of our being. None can define its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.”
Source : 1967 Science is Not Enough.
“Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.”
“An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.”
“This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.”
“My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.”
“I didn't expect to be dropped by England”