Author Film Music poet Writing Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film. - Jessica Hagedorn
Society I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. - Jessica Hagedorn
Music I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City. - Jessica Hagedorn
Feeling Being I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough. - Jessica Hagedorn
Being World Life Hybridity keeps me from being rigid about most things. It has taught me to appreciate the contradictions in the world and in my life. I scavenge from the best. - Jessica Hagedorn
Imagination My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify. - Jessica Hagedorn
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. - Anna Quindlen
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. - Jack Herer