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- The speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have…
- But in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the samenesses. When we…
- We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.
- I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are…
- In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than…
- Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must…
- If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you come as lightly…
- ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate…
- For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that…
- The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid...
- … our sons must become men – such men as we hope our daughters, born and unborn, will be pleased to live among. Our sons…
- For women ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of light within which we…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle