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Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

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Claudia Rankine

I think the idea that the systemic problems in a society lead to illness is important to know. We shouldn't be separating out how we live with where we live, and what ails us with the environment we're in.

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Because white men can’t police their imaginations, black men are dying.

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I want to believe that in any relational moment a person understands that the other person in front of them is just another human being.

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You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you.

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Poetry has no investment in anything besides openness. It's not arguing a point. It's creating an environment.

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So you're just moving along and suddenly you get this moment that breaks your ability to continue, and yet you continue. I wanted those kinds of moments. And initially people would say, "I don't think I have any. " Their initial reaction was to render invisible those moments weaved into a kind of everydayness.

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