Art is a luxury but also a necessity. - Edwidge Danticat

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People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.

Edwidge Danticat

Art is a luxury but also a necessity.

Art, Art Is, Luxury, Necessity

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Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.

Love, Love Is, Pouring, Rain, Starts

Misery won't touch you gentle. It always leaves its thumbprints on you; sometimes it leaves them for others to see, sometimes for nobody but you to know of.

Black, Gentle, Leaves, Misery, Thumbprints

There is this split between the Haiti of before the earthquake and the Haiti of after the earthquake. So when I'm writing anything set in Haiti now, whether fiction or nonfiction, always in the back of my mind is how people, including some of my own family members, have been affected not just by history and by the present but also by the earthquake.

Writing, People, Mind, Set, Family

Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically. . .

Keeps, Monday, Night, Things, Write, Writing

Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.

Defended, Hiding, Lived, Open, People, Should

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Elia Suleiman

People in power tend to find poetry dangerous to them because it is dislocating, they can't catch it, can't control it. They prefer coherence, what's blunt and has clarity.

People, Coherence, Clarity, Dislocating, Prefer, Tend

Emily Mortimer

There were moments where I was being kicked in the stomach, and even though I had this brace on to protect me, I still had to prepare myself for it. You can't be relaxed when that's happening. You have to brace your muscles. I can remember thinking as it was about to happen "Wasn't that how Houdini died?" I think it was.

Died, Moments, Muscles, Remember, Thinking

Jane Rule

To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is what I strive for.

Commitment, Balance, Pleasure, Commitments, Harmonious

Carrie Nation

I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

Air, Clean, Fume, Memorable, Quit, Women

Zachary Levi

I do think about The Flash often. I think that could be a really fun role to play at some point. That's right up my alley. I just want somebody to believe in me that I could be a Superhero.

Believe, Flash, Fun, Play, Somebody, Thinking