So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

June Jordan
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  2. An unknown road will always lead somewhere where you haven't been before. - Anthony T. Hincks

  3. He may be a nobody to you, but he's a somebody to someone else! - Anthony T. Hincks

  4. What you choose also chooses you. - Kamand Kojouri

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  1. And if iif i ever let love gobecause the hatred and the whisperingsbecome a phantom dictate i o-bey in lieu of impulse and realities(the blossoming flamingos of mywild mimosa trees)then let love freeze meout.(from i must become a menace to my enemies)

  2. I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love...

  3. And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what it means to fail to find and preserve the connection with the dead whose lives you, or I, want or need to honor with our...

  4. ... mommahelp meturn the face of historyto your face.- Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother

  5. A man is not a tree'... If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.

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