“I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and then as independent subjects with a post-colonial experience.” FirstsSidesSubjectsIndependentSlavePostsAncestryColonization Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.” IfsThinkingFirstsReaderLessonsNervousGuaranteesNervous System Author:Fred D'Aguiar
“To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined architecture, otherwise people would say you're putting words in their mouths.” PeopleFirstsPersonsHandsYoungSpeakMouthsArchitectureFirst PersonMicrophonesUtteranceWise People Author:Fred D'Aguiar
