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Janice Mirikitani Biography

Janice Mirikitani (born February 4, 1941) is an American Sansei poet and activist.

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I am iron butterfly. . .
I am she
we
of flesh
and iron
and silk wings,
healing, flying
into a gentle blue sky.

Butterfly, Confidence, Flesh, Healing, Silk, Wings

Bad women celebrate themselves.

Bad, Bad Woman, Celebrate, Women

We were made to believe
our faces betrayed us.
Our bodies were loud
with yellow
screaming flesh
needing to be silenced
behind barbed wire.

Believe, Screaming, Silenced, War, Yellow

I found that my wounds begin to heal when the voices of those endangered by silence are given power. The silence of hopelessness, of despair buried in the depths of poverty, violence, racism are more deadly than bullets. The gift of light, in our compassion, our listening, our works of love is the gift of life to ourselves.

Compassion, Despair, Endangered, Found, Light, Love Is

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