“Watch who you have around you, and focus, work hard, and be humble, and try to be good.” Quote by Inbar Lavi
“Each of us is tied, in some fashion, to the past. We are all part of a continuum.” PastFashionTiedContinuum Author:Nikki Grimes
“I am particularly conscious of my connection to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance because I, too, am a Black poet, born into, and shaped by, the very community in which those poets of the past produced so much of the work we associate with the Harlem Renaissance. We speak from the same place, both literally and metaphorically.” PastSpeakBlackBornCommunityPoetConsciousConnectionsAssociatesRenaissanceHarlemHarlem Renaissance Author:Nikki Grimes
“When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period were, in large measure, breaking out of the constrictions white society had set for them. They were claiming and remaking their own images, and doing so in bold and striking ways.” ThinkingWayArtArtistWhiteColorPeriodsAfrican AmericanRenaissanceHarlemBright ColorsHarlem Renaissance Author:Nikki Grimes
“I think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or another. There's been a lot of books written about how Americans have an odd way of trying to defer grief or minimize the need to grieve. People used to have a lot more ritual grief in their lives. For the most part, we think of it as a strictly temporal process: you grieve for a time and then you're over [it], but it's also a spatial process. It travels across a map.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsTryingBookUsedProcessGriefWrittenSubjectsHugeOne WayOddGrievingOver ItMapsRitualSpatial Author:John Darnielle
“When you know where somebody is, you know the most important thing about them.” KnowsImportantImportant Things Author:John Darnielle
“When I became conscious of being a person, when I was very small, I knew that I was from Indiana, but I had never seen Indiana. I was born there, but we moved when I was, like, a year old. I always had a sense of a place that was far away from where I was. I would research it and find out about it and I remember on Christmas morning I used to always call Indiana to find out what the weather was like; to see if it was snowing or not.” IfsYearsPersonsRememberUsedBornMorningResearchConsciousMovedSnowWeatherFar AwayIndianaChristmas Morning Author:John Darnielle
“My family, before the divorce, moved several times, and after that we moved a whole bunch more times, and so I don't have an anchor to a single place. Probably as a result of that, I'm a little more attenuated to when people do feel close identification to place, whether they say it out aloud or not. I think that there's a sort of local patriotism that is deeper than national patriotism.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLittlesWholeResultsMy FamilyMovedDeeperDivorceLocalsBunchMore TimeAnchorsIdentification Author:John Darnielle
“In the present political situation, it's an interesting phenomenon to look at: what is the appeal of an autocratic leader? Why do people want somebody who yells at them? For most of us, that's so hard to understand. Who wants that? I think there are a lot of people for whom that fulfills some kind of need.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsLooksKindHardPoliticalInterestingSituationLeaderAppealsPhenomenon Author:John Darnielle
“It's an important moment as a reader, I think, when you can forget the question of whether you need to know what happened. Some people really want hard explanations. I'm the other way. I like mysteries. I don't want to frustrate people. I don't want people to feel like they got no answers, but I want to approach the mystery and sit with it.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantNeedsFeelsImportantHardMomentsAnswersForgetHappenedMysteryReaderApproachExplanationImportant Moments Author:John Darnielle
“I don't understand being idle; I don't have an idle setting. I probably should develop one.” ShouldSettingSettingsIdle Author:John Darnielle