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Natasha Trethewey has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.
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What's left is palimpsest—one memory bleeding into another, overwriting it.
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What is love?/ One name for it is knowledge.
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I was deeply moved by Richard Blanco's reading of his inaugural poem-a timely and elegant tribute to the great diversity of American…
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Jesmyn Ward left her Gulf Coast home for education and experience, but it called her back. It called on her in most…
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First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars…
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When I was born here in Gulfport in 1966, my parents' interracial marriage was still illegal. And it was very hard to…
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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There are indeed all sorts of men/ who visit here: those who want/ nothing but to talk or hear the soft tones/…
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I don't like a kind of workshop that is about editing--I don't want to sit there and be an editor. I don't…
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You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. "Theories of…
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When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
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I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!
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The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.
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