September 2010
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“When I was interviewing someone for a magazine article, I always noticed little...”
– Danyel Smith, interview, 2002
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Back to the big ugly city where I live now.
Where unbelievably and unintentionally I have become part of a close cadre of friends who get together at say Jackie and Dwayne’s two weeks before Christmas and you have to bring an ornament and Jackie forces everyone to take at least one turn at karaoke and one can always count on Victoria to do some quiet interpretive dance and Trace will dance as if we were an episode of Soul Train and...
soberingthoughts asked: So the walls are still up. Hmmm...is it okay if I march around them for seven days?
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Question: What makes someone a New Yorker?
Being cool with not having real space. And knowing, on the morning of September 11, 2001, in the sunny comfort of my parents’ den in California, that even if it’s about Amtrak, it’s time to get — immediately — home to Brooklyn.
—Danyel Smith, May 2008
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“[He] says: Have your walls come down yet? And I say: No. And mean it.”
– Danyel Smith, journals. August, 2001
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“The book you are now holding within your hand was born of a craving. My mama had...”
– Andrea Levy, “The Long Song”
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sunshine + movie theater + bookstore + more...
plans for the day.
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“G*d, I ask you for help with my writing tomorrow. Help me with dedication and...”
– Danyel Smith, journals. December 29, 2000
wondering.
why i am compelled to watch “Legally Blonde,” any version, whenever it’s on TV.
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'As in "Juice," there are moments in "Above the... →
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“Dewy and still damp from the shower, Mariah Carey has put on a little powder and...”
– Lede from VIBE magazine Mariah Carey cover story. By Danyel Smith, November 1998
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“I wanted to write about the Bay Area, the history of Oakland and the...”
– Danyel Smith, interview, 2003
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“I didn’t want the solutions to everyone’s problems to be...”
– Danyel Smith, interview about the novel More Like Wrestling, 2002
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