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As a younger person you can come in through many, many gateways. It's like some huge Mandela. You can enter into this and get refreshed.
Anne Waldman
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Anne Waldman
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 2
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I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.
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I get very upset when money is being cut and people can't visit the Grand Canyon.
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I think of the amazing things that were going on. So it's so rich. The doors keep opening.
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This will be a good time for poetry, you know, when things get darker and stranger and your very speech is being questioned and the sense of trusting that human thing.
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We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.
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The whole red state/blue state thing is very interesting. Watching that shift over the years.
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My last bedside conversation in the hospital just a few weeks before Allen Ginsberg died was 'please take care of so and so. And the legacy of the Kerouac school.
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I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.
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Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.
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