"There are times in life when, instead of……" — Rita Dove
"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."
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74 Quotes by Rita Dove
Rita Dove has 74 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back…
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise…
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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…
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More Black History Quotes
This quote is filed under Black History Quotes,
one of 124 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
— Pearl Bailey
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You must change in order to survive.
— Pearl Bailey
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I do consider myself part of black history.
— Mary J. Blige
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain…
— Muhammad Ali
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Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your…
— Ralph Abernathy
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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
— Maya Angelou
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Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is…
— Maya Angelou
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I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning…
— Mo Rocca
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They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.
— Rush Limbaugh
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This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the…
— Lynn Swann
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Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel…
— Richard Allen
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