Years ago, I thought that if a person had experienced injustice in her life, it meant she would … - Luljeta Lleshanaku

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The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

Luljeta Lleshanaku

Years ago, I thought that if a person had experienced injustice in her life, it meant she would be fair, because she would know what it meant to be a victim of injustice. But now I am not so sure. Experiencing injustice can also make a person dangerous. Carrying a sense of revenge and anger can make a person victimize their own self.

Dangerous, Injustice, Revenge, Sense, Thought, Victim

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Childhood is usually identified with fantasy, adventure, and dreaming. But mine didn't offer a lot of hope. I could read my future in my palm. Everything foretold: "You have no future!" A person must be very strong to keep going without hope.

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Each language has its own temperament; some languages make a poem more dramatic or sad, and others make it more playful.

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In my family there was no small talk, only talk about serious things like global politics - trying to interpret the distant political signs, looking desperately for some hope things would change. Religion was forbidden beginning in 1968, when I was born. So my communication with them was limited to issues of everyday life, which were issues of survival.

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I come from a culture that was isolated for a long time - I have my own story to tell, in my own style, and an aesthetic approach that was mostly self-taught. So, does it fit a reader's curiosity? Will it meet their expectations?

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To me, poetry is a rational act. I never write a poem if I'm not sure what I am going to say or what I want to communicate.

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