“I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance.” ThinkingGivingJobsTeacherInstitutions Author:Vijay Seshadri
“You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.” ThinkingWayOrderVariousSplitsMultitudesThink Of You Author:Vijay Seshadri
“You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.” ThinkingKindRepresentationThink Of YouUnthinkable Author:Vijay Seshadri
“We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.” ThinkingConsciousnessSubjectivity Author:Vijay Seshadri
“When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically. Those contradictions led me to feel that the role in society I was given didn't jive with my sense of myself. I think, in fact, that is the case with most people. Everybody feels themselves to be in an original relationship to creation, and feels confined by their social role.” PeopleThinkingFeelsFactsMightGivenSocialRolesCasesCreationOriginalsBottomContradictionImmigrantsLaddersConfinedSocial Roles Author:Vijay Seshadri
“I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.” ThinkingPainCausesResourcesRhetorical Author:Vijay Seshadri
