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O time! whose verdicts mock our own, the only righteous judge art thou!
Thomas William Parsons
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Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.
Reynolds Price
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And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.
Stephen Dunn
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Every day I am deluged with reminders
that this is not
my land
and this is my land.
I do not believe in the war between races
but in this country
there is war.
Lorna Dee Cervantes
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Incense smokes, and love takes care,
In her blue bed the virgin died;
The fire broods, the day falls,
The Angel, sisters, knocks on the door.
Stuart Merrill
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Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.
Kim Chernin
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Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.
John B. Tabb
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Two Fishes in the sky-deeps swim, Both elongated but quite dim Which seems to be a paradox: Because they lead the Zodiac, Are Famous in the almanac, And own the vernal equinox.
Lillian White Spencer
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Euryalus, is it
the gods who put this fire in our minds,
or is it that each man's relentless longing
becomes a god to him?
Allen Mandelbaum
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Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden.
Richard Realf
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One of the greatest roles
ever created by Western man
has been the role of "Negro."
One of the greatest actors
to play the role has been
the "Nigger."
Henry Dumas
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Though Duty's face is stern, her path is best: They sweetly sleep who die upon her breast.
Henry Abbey
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I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
Richard Hovey
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People who didn't live pre-Internet can't grasp how devoid of ideas life in my hometown was.
Mary Karr
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That which we look on with unselfish love
And true humility is surely ours,
Even as a lake looks at the stars above
And makes within itself a heaven of stars.
Mary Gardiner Brainard
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The economy of gift, of art, is fundamentally opposed to the economy of war.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
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The combination of song, prayer, and poetry is a natural form of expression for many Navajo people. A person who is able to 'talk beautifully' is well thought of and considered wealthy...
Luci Tapahonso
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At a phone looking to Africa over the Mediterranean, I called my father, and, missing me, he said, "You almost home boy. Go on cross that sea!"
Afaa M. Weaver
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Let all Black Poets die as trumpets,
And be buried in the dust of marching feet.
Etheridge Knight
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up from new Orleans, on riverboats
from the gulf of mexico, memory carries
sweet legacy of niggerland speech, brown tongue bluesing
muddy water
underbottomed spirits crawling, nightmares
of shipwrecked bones, bones gone home to stone, to stone
bones gone home to stone, to stone
riverbottomed, underbellied spirits
Quincy Troupe
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The self is no mystery, the mystery is / That there is something for us to stand on
George Oppen
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March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.
David McCord
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You know, they say that there is a part
of the human chest that it you strike it hard enough,
it makes the person's heart explode. This sounds like
such a lie that I have to believe it's the truth. If I were
science, I'd never tell anyone where this place is.
If I were science, I'd have named this place after you.
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
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The sky is that beautiful old parchment in which the sun and the moon keep their diary.
Alfred Kreymborg
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Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you're tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They'll dance inside themselves without you.
Albert Goldbarth
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