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"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
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"Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more."
"Why people like to be kicked and punched in the face. The game is famous as box??What's the inspiring thing?? Do you know that every punch in the head you lose a cell or cells so it's possible in the near future all boxer to be stupid. Why??Because of the punches!...But still I don't see where is the Adrenaline in this sport?? There are random punches or kickes without thinking just dicide it to do it for fun. But in games like chess there is strategy + logic!"
"There was nothing - and nothing - and then the car bumped up again. There was a muffled pop, the sound of a small pumpkin exploding in a microwave oven.Morris cut the wheel to the left and there was another bump as the Biscayne went back into the parking area. He looked in the mirror and saw that Curtis's head was gone."
"Damn,' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later."
"Violence isn't a Democrat or Republican problem. It's an American problem, requiring an American solution."
"Ignore the reek of feces in the air, the bloodstains on the ground, and you have yourself a glorious night."
"I am committed to the principle that violence is never justified as a means of ameliorating a grievance."
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"In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way."
"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."
"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 and self-respect."
"The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet."
"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."
"That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes."
"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."
"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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