My identity is linked to my grandmother,... by Jessica Hagedorn

Author poet playwright Imagination Filipino-American

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

Other quotes by Jessica Hagedorn

Sound Death

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Mother Writer

Becoming a mother has helped make me a tougher, stronger writer.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Sound Music

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Joy Sense End Want People

But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live.

- Jessica Hagedorn

Time

Everything matters. Time is precious.

- 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

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