Im an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society. – Jessica Hagedorn
We didnt have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child. – Jessica Hagedorn
My identity is linked to my grandmother, whos pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So thats how I identify. – Jessica Hagedorn
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was fed up with these Communist doctrines and you were hassled all the time with members of the Party committee who were KGB, what you have to do, where in the West you can go or not to go. – Mikhail Baryshnikov