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Literature seemed to be everything then. People looked to it for the strength to live, for guidance, for revelation.

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The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

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To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

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Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

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Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.

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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

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What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.

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