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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…
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness…
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Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and…
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems…
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If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response.…
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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust…
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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements…
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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into…
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If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of…
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I am the history of the rejection of who I am
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Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and…
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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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I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
— Maya Angelou
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Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of…
— Cody Lundin
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The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by…
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It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the…
— Stafford Cripps
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I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I…
— June Jordan
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What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under…
— H.G. Wells
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a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid, and however unpleasant the truth may be, it is better to face it once and…
— Bertrand Russell
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