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The whole thing is this: If you don't use just basic grammar, if you don't get the language down, you're not going to have access to a tool that people use as a weapon against you. The only reason I…

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People say what distinguishes us from the animals is that we think. Well, then why the hell don't we extend some compassion to those under tremendous duress? There's this whole idea that you work really hard so you can deaden…

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I culled poetry from odors, sounds, faces, and ordinary events occurring around me. Breezes bulged me as if I were cloth; sounds nicked their marks on my nerves; objects made impressions on my sight as if in clay. There, in the soft language, life centered and ground itself in me and I was flowing with the grain of the universe.…

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“They turn the water off, so I live without water, they build walls higher, so I live without treetops, they paint the windows black, so I live without sunshine, they lock my cage, so I live without going anywhere, they take each last tear I have, I live without tears, ...they take my heart and rip it open, I live…

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Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a…

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I do know that if you can name certain things and understand them, it allows you to make better choices. Unfortunately, there's so much…

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“It's the process of making-do, of the life I've lived between breakdowns and break-ups, that has made life worth living. I could not bear…

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I can't stand the comfort zone. So many people I know, their parents give them their homes, and they get married and have children,…

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Literacy is freedom, and everyone has something significant to say,

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I sat back in my wooden chair as they signed the paperwork and stared down at the arm rests, studying the various layers of…

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Americans would have a right to go to war with the Iraqis if we could name one author from Iraq. It disturbs me that…

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We're all self-destructive when we're young. We all rebel. If we don't, there's something wrong. But when a Chicano kid's in a rebellious state,…

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I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack…

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You've got to invite Native Americans to the table, and Asians, and Chicanos. You cannot keep us in the back room anymore and give…

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