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"I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc."
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"One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves."
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"So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet."
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"Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do."
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"High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this."
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"Other people have noticed more of an evolution than I have and so I'll try to tell you where I'm coming from and also relate it to what I think other people perceive."
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"American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet."
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"Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground."
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"I do not read newspapers. I do not watch television. I am not interested in current events, although I will occasionally discuss them if other people want to discuss them."
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"Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today."
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"I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry."
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"Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart's desire."
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"Each day that comes is not a privilege to think about wrong people and things in a negative way and disturb not just your mind, but your heart as well! Each day is however, a great privilege to be thankful to God and mind the business of your life; how to summon all challenges, limit your mistakes and improve your wit and wisdom, and how to move your footsteps to live noble and indelible footprints!"
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"Attitude is the most beautiful expression of a positive life."
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"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."
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"It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
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"Ask yourself and become more aware-are you . . . Speaking poorly of others in judgment, gossip, and intolerance? Looking for, dwelling on, and obsessing over the negative? Being grumpy, negative, and infecting others with your bad attitude or victim mentality?"
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"My sense of misadventure took over and I began looking at my problems as challenges."
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"A positive attitude will help fortify your courage to build unshakable confidence and healthy self-esteem."
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"Nobody can bring you peace but yourself."
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"It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck."
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