Naomi Wallace Quotes

• If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.

  Naomi Wallace

  Despair, Know How, Knows

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• You can't break my heart. It's made of water.

  Naomi Wallace

  Heart, Water, Break

  Naomi Wallace (2010). “In the Heart of America and Other Plays”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm interested in the way that the language of labor has been suppressed in our culture, the way it has disappeared from our vocabulary and is never heard on stage. . . . I'm better at writing than I am at organizing [political action]. SLAUGHTER CITY is my small contribution. If it gives people a voice it is worth something. So often we forget what we are no longer hearing.

  Naomi Wallace

  Writing, Vocabulary, Cities

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• I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.

  Naomi Wallace

  Reading, Thinking, Space

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