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• I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether…
• The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.
• Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
• Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of…
• these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips…
• If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering…
• Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break.…
• What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
• Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
• Say it clear, and it will be beautiful.
• I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
• Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

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