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"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."
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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."
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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."
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"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."
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"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"
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"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."
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"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."
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"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."
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"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."
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"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
"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
Violence
"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
"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."
Injustice
"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
Being
"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."
Family
"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
People
"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."
Life
"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
"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
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