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When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

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I'm a night person. My best times are midnight to six, actually.

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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

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It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles.

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Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.

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I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

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I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.

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The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: August 28th, 1952

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