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Rita Dove has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those…
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The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You…
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When I was young, I was older than I am today.
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I…
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those…
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what…
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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to…
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The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or…
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In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision…
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What is ironic is that Allen Ginsberg's importance was in its twilight for so many years that it took his death to…
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian.…
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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling…
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You can't have anything valuable in your house. Niggers will break in and take it all! Everything white people don't like about…
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Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.
— Steven Biko
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Racism is when you have laws set up, systematically put in a way to keep people from advancing, to stop the advancement…
— Spike Lee
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I was just very interested in the American frontier and the growth of capitalism - those enormous fortunes that were being made,…
— Peter Matthiessen
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I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know…
— Rita Dove
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It's a great day in America when white people, black people and Latinos can all come together and pick on another minority.
— George Lopez
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If you're white and you're wrong, then you're wrong; if you're black and you're wrong, you're wrong. People are people. Black, blue,…
— Bob Marley
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I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or…
— William Faulkner
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I want to be the voice of the people; black, white, everyday, oppressed people. A person trying to make it and to…
— Common
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I was born on an island with 96 percent of the people black. But all the power and the economy was in…
— Myles Munroe
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God Bless Black People, Black Is Beauty. Once You Go Black, You Never Go Back.
— Don Kel
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