Richard Blanco quotes

Richard Blanco quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.”
-- Richard Blanco

#Art Quotes #Home Quotes
“Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.”
-- Richard Blanco

#Art Quotes #Good Life Quotes #Answers Quotes
“Your life is a work of art that you will work on the rest of your life.”
-- Richard Blanco

#Art Quotes #Life Is Quotes #Works Of Art Quotes
“Artists are the emotional historians of the world.”
-- Richard Blanco

#Emotional Quotes #Artist Quotes #World Quotes
“I like the labels because I think they tell my story in a very concise way: gay, Latino. I think the responsibility that comes with accepting labels is that now I get a chance to break stereotypes. It gives me the opportunity to tell the unique stories of what those labels mean.”
-- Richard Blanco

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

#Mean Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Gay Quotes
“I had been thinking about the question, "What do I love about America?" I kept coming back to this idea of community and home, which already obsessed me in my work. But I couldn't quite figure out how to lead beyond my immediate experience. Then I was just standing at the kitchen sink, and I watched the sun rise, and I thought, "How many hundreds of thousands of people are watching the same sun rise right now?" I just knew the poem would go from that line.”
-- Richard Blanco

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#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes
“As an immigrant, there's a little part of you that always says, "Well, I'm not a hundred percent American." America is some other little boy or some other place I haven't been to yet.”
-- Richard Blanco

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#Boys Quotes #Little Boys Quotes
“Entering into writing a poem is an emotional endeavor for me as well as a spiritual and creative one. Having to write those poems for the inauguration, I started asking deeper questions about my cultural identity, and my connection to America.”
-- Richard Blanco

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#Spiritual Quotes #Writing Quotes #Emotional Quotes
“What was transformative was being at the inauguration, reading my poem, and realizing that the quest for home and identity had always been part of my work, but that I'd been home all along.”
-- Richard Blanco

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#Reading Quotes #Home Quotes #Identity Quotes
“Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been shocking because that's the expected norm, right? I felt I was a good match: here's an accomplished poet, and he's also gay and Latino.”
-- Richard Blanco

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

#Gay Quotes #Guy Quotes #Poet Quotes
“I was at a stage in my life where I felt sort of comfortable being a dislocated person emotionally, feeling in some ways like a man without any particular country. I had come to a nice space with the imaginary Cuba or the imaginary America that I thought existed.”
-- Richard Blanco

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

#Country Quotes #Nice Quotes #Men Quotes

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