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The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

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That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

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One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!

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My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.

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In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.

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CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.

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Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

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But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 9th, 1936

Died: June 14th, 2002

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