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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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Sometimes we forget to be grateful until we survive a trauma. For example, after having the flu when you ache all over,…
— Charlotte Sophia Kasl
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Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each…
— Natalie Goldberg
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Thats how we survive infinity - we kill it by breaking it up into small bits.
— Terry Pratchett
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If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us…
— Ray Bradbury
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U feel that way sometimes wondering: wondering, how did we survive?
— Haki R. Madhubuti
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It's funny how the world works, how we win and lose, how we can never really know what's ahead though we never…
— Anna McPartlin
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How we survive, is what makes us who we are.
— Tim McIlrath
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Life is a hurricane, and we board up to save what we can and bow low to the earth to crouch in…
— Jesmyn Ward
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The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who…
— Ray Nagin
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We survive our way through basketball hoping the # Lakers will survive and we hope for the # Kings and for the…
— Vin Scully
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We have indeed been out in space, but some are under the illusion that we have been off Earth. In reality humans…
— Thomas Berry
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Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to…
— Ramona Koval
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