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• Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who…
• Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness…
• Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and…
• I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems…
• If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response.…
• To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust…
• As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements…
• Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into…
• If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of…
• I am the history of the rejection of who I am
• Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and…
• So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces…

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