“Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.” Quote by Kim Hyesoon
“Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.” ThinkingMenFeelsShouldSeeingSorrowDishesMarginsSeasoningTrivial Things Author:Kim Hyesoon
“I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.” ThinkingAcceptingFantasyTheaterMusicalJust BeingMusical Theater Author:Amy Adams
“My concern is always that I can do justice to what I see and hear.” I CanCan DoJusticeConcern Author:Kwame Dawes
“When people open up and share their stories, you have a responsibility to tell these truths truthfully and with the same quest for grace and beauty that you see in them.” PeopleStoriesResponsibilityGraceShareQuests Author:Kwame Dawes
“I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.” PeopleTryingDoeMatterComplexityContradictionCapture Author:Kwame Dawes
“I think that the kinds of stereotypes that people have about Haitians or about HIV sufferers exist because we don't realize that these are our brothers, our sisters, our aunts and uncles, our neighbors. They are us. And I don't mean that in some metaphorical sense. They are literally us.” PeopleThinkingKindMeanRealizingBrotherNeighborUnclesStereotypeAuntHivMetaphoricalSufferersAunts And Uncles Author:Kwame Dawes
“HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a way to deceive ourselves about our invincibility. But it is a delusion.” WayPersonsDiseaseDelusionDeceivingHivInvincibility Author:Kwame Dawes
“Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.” ArtPlayFormImaginationNewsCollectivesCycles Author:Kwame Dawes
“I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once at home and away from home at the same time. It is inevitable that my perspective will be international.” PersonsHomeFeltBlackPerspectiveInternationalInevitableExileMigrationAway From HomeBlack Person Author:Kwame Dawes
“I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of it, and do we embrace it as a kind of birthright? I do. And yet, I feel deeply connected to at least two homespaces - Jamaica and Ghana, and more recently, South Carolina.” FeelsBelieveKindTwoI BelieveMovementStrangeEmbraceSouthPatternsConnectedCarolinaMigrationBirthrightSouth CarolinaJamaicaGhana Author:Kwame Dawes