Amerikanisch / American Empfangen / Received Frauen / Women Geld / Money Hätten / Had Je / Ever Universität / University Verband / Association Vergeben / Award Zuerst / First
We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.
I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetry in a room in a flat at the edge of the city.
America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'
When I won the MacArthur, I didn't receive a different amount of money than the men did.
I could have just received royalty checks every month by lending my name to a collection, but I didn't want to do that. My name is a reflection of me.
The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received.
My dad won an Oscar in 1951 with an un-Anglicized name, the first Hispanic to ever win an Oscar, and the Academy is so intractable to this day.
