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"There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints."
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"I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age."
"I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it."
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"Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely."
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