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Anthologist Inspirational Quotes (38)

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What I'm trying to do is to tell young people that I teach them how to breathe before I teach the haiku. That one breath, that one breath, because the haiku keeps you alive. It keeps you going. If you learn how to breath the haiku, you learn how to breathe. If you learn how to breathe, you're much healthier.
Sonia Sanchez
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Poetry is subconscious conversation, it is as much the work of those who understand it and those who make it.
Sonia Sanchez
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Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I
Alfred Kreymborg
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I probably have not killed anyone in America because I write, I've maintained good controls over myself by writing.
Sonia Sanchez
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that the people who really enjoy chess are the dubs and the duffers, experts who have resigned their ambitions, those who play only for pastime, and, of course, the great fraternity of the kibbitzers.
Alfred Kreymborg
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I still hear you humming, Mama. The colour of your song calls me home. The colour of your words saying, Let her be. She got a right to be different. She gonna stumble on herself one of these days. Just let the child be. And I be, Mama.
Sonia Sanchez
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Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.
Geoffrey Madan
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To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
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I write to tell the truth about the black condition as I see it. Therefore, I write to offer a black woman's view of the world.
Sonia Sanchez
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The most fundamental truth to be told in any art form, as far as Blacks are concerned, is that America is killing us.
Sonia Sanchez
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Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.
Sonia Sanchez
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A poet is the translator of the silent language of nature to the world.
Rufus Wilmot Griswold
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No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.
Sonia Sanchez
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