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I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.

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When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

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The homeland affects you directly: it affects your body; it affects the collective mind and the collective heart and the collective spirit.

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When I began to listen to poetry, it's when I began to listen to the stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And I think, most importantly for all of us, then you begin to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself in here, which is also the soul of everyone else.

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When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

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I love the sound of the saxophone. It became my singing voice, and it sounds so human. The saxophone could carry the words past the border of words. It can carry it a little bit farther.

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The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound.

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Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.

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You just go where poetry is, whether it's in your heart or your mind or in books or in places where there's live poetry or recordings.

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I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: May 9th, 1951

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