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I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

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The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.

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To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

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I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

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My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.

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It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.

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There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 9th, 1936

Died: June 14th, 2002

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