I spoke in Dallas last week to a ballroom full of people of all political stripes who believed abusers should lose their guns. This gives me hope. —from No Visible Bruises: Rachel Louise Snyder on domestic violence
Category Archive: Interview Quotes
Our family’s own sojourn living north of Jerusalem, my own seeing with my own eyes what went on between Israelis and Palestinians, the immense tragedy of oppression and disconnection, first took shape when I was a teenager but would continue till now. I continue to see my role as a duty to “talk about it.”—from Naomi Shihab Nye // The Cagibi Express Interview
When a word can be used in different ways or when different words seem interchangeable but signal political differences, it’s a good moment to be conscious of our usage. —from Ulrich Baer // The Cagibi Express Interview
"...discovery of how we actually feel and think about even those things we believe we already understand is perhaps the real reward of imaginative writing." —from Philip Schultz // The Cagibi Express Interview
"Cagibis—I’ve been trying to create them my whole life." —Andre Dubus III, from Gone So Long, the Interview
"...the places of our childhood remain the richest, with the imagery brighter and more original, the world transformed by the child’s receptive mind and imagination." —from Sheila Kohler // The Cagibi Express Interview