Danzy Senna Quote
When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap.
Danzy Senna
When there is a gap—between your face and your race, between the baby and the mother, between your body and yourself—you are expected, everywhere you go, to explain the gap.
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About Danzy Senna
Danzy Senna is an American novelist and essayist. She is the author of six books and numerous essays about race, gender and motherhood, including Caucasia (1998), Symptomatic, and New People (2017), named by Time Magazine as one of the Top Ten Novels of the year. In July 2024 she will publish a novel entitled Colored Television. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Vogue and The New York Times. She is a professor of English at the University of Southern California.