My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.
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Related Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing th... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it di... NATASHA TRETHEWEY My parents had to go to Ohio to get married in 1965 because it was still illegal in Mississippi. My ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it... NATASHA TRETHEWEY It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write. NATASHA TRETHEWEY Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybri... NATASHA TRETHEWEY Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated... NATASHA TRETHEWEY Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at h... NATASHA TRETHEWEY Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generation... NATASHA TRETHEWEY My mother was murdered by my step-father, my brother's father, who was also named Joel, twenty-f... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship... NATASHA TRETHEWEY The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us. NATASHA TRETHEWEY A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers,... NATASHA TRETHEWEY My own journey in becoming a poet began with memory - with the need to record and hold on to what wa... NATASHA TRETHEWEY The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myse... NATASHA TRETHEWEY My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested... NATASHA TRETHEWEY When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on... NATASHA TRETHEWEY People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atroc... NATASHA TRETHEWEY In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY 'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegi... NATASHA TRETHEWEY When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,' because they see it not just for th... NATASHA TRETHEWEY One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast... NATASHA TRETHEWEY As much as we love each other, there is some growing difficulty in my adult relationship with my fat... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,... NATASHA TRETHEWEY From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in Ame... NATASHA TRETHEWEY Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all thi... NATASHA TRETHEWEY When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in ... NATASHA TRETHEWEY This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississ... AMIRI BARAKA When my dad came here, he came on a scholarship in the late '60s, and he went to Mississippi Sta... KELVIN YU I spent 20 years in Nashville and my Mom lives in Mississippi, GARY MORRIS As I travel to Brussels, my daughter, who our family welcomed into our hearts in October of 2002, is... ALLYSON SCHAAF I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age,... SAM DONALDSON The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, ... CANDACE CAMERON BURE I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne. SAMIRA WILEY My grandfather was in Mississippi, and so was my stepsister. DAVID MONK I was born in Clinton, Mississippi, which had 1,500-2,500 people when I was growing up - a village. BARRY HANNAH In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award ... LESLEY MANVILLE This is unparalleled in Mississippi. This is a new Mississippi, LAWRENCE GUYOT A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor. NATALIE WOOD Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April. SARAH MLYNOWSKI I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than bla... DICK GREGORY A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi has exactly the same rights as a white ba... THURGOOD MARSHALL My father came from Germany. My mom came from Venezuela. My father's culturally German, but his ... FRED ARMISEN I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha. NATALIE WOOD I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the ... MUDDY WATERS Being solitary isn't a disease that needs a cure. NATASHA PULLEY Well, I cried. This is the first time that my mom and sister have seen me play here, and this is the... LATOYA WILY A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white... THURGOOD MARSHALL Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER I myself was born in Sacramento, California in 1966. SARAH ZETTEL I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays. BETH HENLEY When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of America... AMERICA FERRERA One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi Riv... RON KIND I spent 12 years of my life, the last six years training six to eight hours a day, every day of my l... CAITLYN JENNER I have ordered to beef up security in the key installations and sensitive places before the Independ... LUTFOZZAMAN BABAR He was there from April 30 to May 26. It was the first time he was away from home. I went there ever... ALETHEA ZAVITZ We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My moth... BEYONCE KNOWLES We are still holding hope that we will bring Natasha home. I hope we can, but I truly think my calli... ALLYSON SCHAAF I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, h... STEPHEN HAWKING I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a ... GARTH RISK HALLBERG When, over fifty years ago, I first became interested in economics - as a discipline that provided t... SIMON KUZNETS My prayers are with the people in New Orleans, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia, DON HARRISON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I remember my first job, when I was working in a retail store down there, growing up in Laurel, Miss... MARSHA BLACKBURN This may be one of those years in the stock market where you'll want to sell on Memorial Day and go ... JOHN AUGUSTINE My first taste of it was 9 years of age. Obviously, (I dealt with it) the day I was born because of ... LENNY SIMPSON Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The situation is more significantly bad now in Mississippi. DR. FREDERICK C. BLUM My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time... MORGAN FREEMAN Despite this horrific tragedy and temporary setback, Southern Baptists in Alabama, Mississippi and L... BOBBY WELCH I've been very lucky. I made a choice, getting out of school, to follow the work and the people ... PHILLIPA SOO We are fully committed to this state and are excited about the opportunity to design and develop a f... ANTHONY SANFILIPPO 8,000 Guardsmen from Mississippi and Louisiana who might have helped, might have been deployed in th... CINDY SHEEHAN I have yet to meet (a socialist) who was not as gullible as a Mississippi darkey - nay, as a Mississ... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Natasha, in her lilac silk dress trimmed with black lace walked, as women can walk, with the more re... LEO TOLSTOY When I made 'Who Needs Pictures,' my first album, I had been west of the Mississippi River o... BRAD PAISLEY I will do nothing that hinders the recovery effort in the state of Mississippi. RANDY PERKINS On the day I was born, or possibly on one of the following days, my father went on a walk in the for... IMMANUEL VELIKOVSKY My maternal grandmother was a star on her high school basketball team in small-town Mississippi. ANGIE THOMAS In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. TA-NEHISI COATES My grandmother was born in 1900, and she would regale me with tales I call 'Little House on the ... DAVID ALAN GRIER I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and ... JOE FRAZIER I cannot imagine the grief and the horror that the people in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana are ... GEORGE NOORY There is some indication that the Mississippi senators are interested in doing what's right. BILL CHANDLER Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there. MUDDY WATERS In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi,... PAUL ROBESON The Wheel of Fortune dollar system in Mississippi is statistically overdue to hit. ED ROGICH Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to... VASH YOUNG After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought... FRANCES MCDORMAND I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I mo... DIPLO There's justice for all in Mississippi, JAMES HOOD In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker e... NATASHA PULLEY There was one in Texas and I think three or four in Mississippi that were confirmed by state and loc... TOM SKINNER
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NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I fi... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew w... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy.... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger ... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I would love to do something with Coldplay. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD The common denominator is a love of music. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I get very deep into the writing and recording process. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I&... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make ... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring count... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different thin... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I was... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under... NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is ... NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ Without a goal to work toward, we will not get there. NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it. NATASHA LYONNE When Mathematics unfold through Origamis, when video games target Medicine and Education, NATASHA TSAKOS The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk... NATASHA LEGGERO I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD That's usually how I get to know strangers - get inappropriately touchy. Once they've experi... NATASHA LYONNE I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts. NATASHA HAMILTON As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go a... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engin... NATASHA TSAKOS No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with a... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have th... NATASHA LYONNE He is the definition of sexy. This is a guy who is very confident with both his feminine and masculi... NATASHA TERRY Get this under control as soon as you can young lady, because no one here gives a damn about your un... NATASHA LARRY How the hell am I supposed to respect someone who sold herself to the highest bidder?" he growled wi... NATASHA ANDERS Suddenly it felt like there was a ticking time bomb in the house. I didn’t have all the time in th... NATASHA ANDERS She's probably with the wrong crowd. She picked up the liver thing in Bulgaria during 'The Grey Zone... NATASHA LYONNE She'd done it again... killed another monster with his own sins. NATASHA LARRY Haylee thought of all the supernatural creatures that could kill her... a vampire or even a vampire ... NATASHA LARRY Well, of course. But, we already knew that. I mean... I am kind of a big deal-Matt Carter NATASHA LARRY Be inspired by things in life that are beautiful and good. NATASHA VANDERLINDEN An attempt to resolve what the mind considers to be an irresolvable issue, creates a third option. I... NATASHA DEANE My father died/ many years ago,/ and yet when something special/ happens to me,/ I talk to him secre... NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly ... NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ