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The benefits of prison education go beyond lowering recidivism rates and increasing post-release employment. It can also rekindle a sense of purpose and confidence.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Also Benefits Beyond Confidence Education Employment Go Increasing Lowering Prison Purpose Rates Recidivism Rekindle Sense

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If our principles are only our principles when it is convenient for us, when they align with our visceral emotional responses, then they are, in fact, not principles at all.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Align Convenient Emotional Fact In Fact Only Our Principles Responses Then Us Visceral

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Growing up in New Orleans, I was always the only black kid, or one of two, on the school soccer team. While I was always conscious of this status, what took precedent was my unfettered love of the game.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Always Black Conscious Game Growing Growing Up Kid Love New New Orleans Only Orleans Precedent School Soccer Status Team Took Two Up While

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Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums are pulled from the shelves. Home videos of prepubescent siblings in matching pajamas dance across the television screen.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Across Albums Arrive Dance Designed Each Family Family Members Holiday Home Household Matching Members Nostalgia Pajamas Palpable Photo Poorly Pulled Screen Season Shelves Sibling Television Videos

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In sixth grade, my status as a Boy Scout was not something I went out of my way to share. In fact, I spent most of my adolescence attempting to keep it a secret from those who might use it as a source of derision. The off-brown collared shirt and forest-green sash were not something I would have ever been caught wearing in front of my friends.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Adolescence Attempting Been Boy Boy Scout Caught Ever Fact Friends Front Grade In Fact Keep Might Most Out Scout Secret Share Shirt Sixth Something Source Spent Status Those Use Way Wearing Were Who Would

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In my home, guns were not something to be earned or celebrated. Water guns and Nerf guns were not allowed outside. B.B. guns were not even a part of the conversation.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Allowed Celebrated Conversation Earned Even Guns Home Outside Part Something Water Were

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To operate with the aspiration of color-blindness in a country whose central operating mechanism for centuries has been race belies the logic of race-neutral public policy. Public policy must account for the historic and intentional pillaging of resources experienced by black Americans.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Account American Aspiration Been Black Black Americans Central Centuries Country Experienced Historic Intentional Logic Mechanism Must Operate Operating Policy Public Public Policy Race Resources Whose

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In my hometown of New Orleans, grief is a public spectacle that, somewhat paradoxically, necessitates celebration. The dead are not mourned so much as they are posthumously venerated with music and dance.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Celebration Dance Dead Grief Hometown Much Music New New Orleans Orleans Public Somewhat Spectacle

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New Orleans taught me that mourning takes many different forms. Where I'm from, mourning is spirited. It is loud.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Different Forms Loud Many Me Mourning New New Orleans Orleans Spirited Takes Taught Where

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My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is.

~Clint Smith

Topics: Given Had How Life Me My Own Opportunities Own Poetry Profoundly Reconcile Students Trying Unfair

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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