Aesthetic Quote by Kwame Dawes

“The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.”

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I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of it, and do we embrace it as a kind of birthright? I do. And yet, I feel deeply connected to at least two homespaces - Jamaica and Ghana, and more recently, South Carolina.

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Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.

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All memory is fiction.

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This poet is a griot in search of a village.

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Racist writing is a craft failure.

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