Jessica Hagedorn Quotes & Sayings

“Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.”

“Everything matters. Time is precious.”

“I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.”

“There are certain regions in the country where the indigenous people eat dogs.”

“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.”

“We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.”

“I also identify as a Latin person, a person who has Latin blood.”