If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.

- Fred D'Aguiar

People who are suffering have to visualize ways out of tragedy to actually get out of it.

- Fred D'Aguiar

Much of the visualizing is imaginative.

- Fred D'Aguiar

I was on the wrong side of colonization. My ancestry is mostly mired in having the colonial experience as colonized subjects, first as slaves and the…

- Fred D'Aguiar

Because I write intuitively and image-by-image and moment-by-moment, my writing has to be powered by feelings and emotions.

- Fred D'Aguiar

To close the empathetic gap, you really want to get the person emotionally identifying [with your subject and characters], and then when you do that,…

- Fred D'Aguiar

I try to be even-handed and fair-minded about my view of history. I don't romanticize one side and demonize the other, though I do think that if you'…

- Fred D'Aguiar

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

- Fred D'Aguiar

There's an imperative to make sure you distinguish fiction from the fact, because if the fact is doing the work, why did you do fiction? And once you…

- Fred D'Aguiar