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Rap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.

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Rita Dove
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: August 28
Essayist
Poet
Professor
Writer
Akron
Ohio
Rita Frances Dove
Rap
Pleasure
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Aural
Whole
Virtuosity
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Verbal
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Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?
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We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.
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There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
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I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!
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Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.
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I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.
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Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.
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If they don't read, if they don't love reading if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer
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I think children have talent and insight, but it gets beaten out of them.
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If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together.
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My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.
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Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.
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I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp I shed skins.
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If I begin writing a poem that means I'm intrigued in some way by whatever it's about and that if I'm not trying to find something new and pushing the envelope in the poem I can't expect my reader to be particularly excited about it either.
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My inspiration comes from everywhere, just walking down the street and I never know where it's going to come from, so I keep a notebook with me at all times and the only criteria for anything making it into that notebook is if it stops me in my tracks for even an instant, if it catches my eye or my ear and I just write it down.
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At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all except for trying to get at the very center of what is driving that poem. In a way it's like analyzing myself.
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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
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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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Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.
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