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"There is no vicious inhumanity than keeping children hungry."
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"Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing."
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"The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor."
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"The legal system is blatantly rigged against the common people."
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"Truth shrilled in prison or cemetary."
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"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."
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"The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see."
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"The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public."
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"Racism is a doctrine of, by and for brutes."
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"Many an injustice is presented as a solution and gift."
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"The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think."
Poetry
"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
Being
"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
Friendship
"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."
Poetry
"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."
Love
"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."
Travel
"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."
Family
"One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!"
Thought
"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
People
"There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth."
Beauty
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