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“It does not matter to me: wherever you are grieving whether Paris, Damascus, Jerusalem, Bamako, Mexico or Beirut or New York City my heart, too, is bruised and dragging. There used to be such a thing as melodrama when feelings could be made up, but now there is bare pain and sorrow, a sense of endlessly missed opportunities to smile and embrace "The other.”

Book:Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

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Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker is a renowned American author born on February 9, 1944. Her works are known for their profound social criticism and feminist ideas, with notable titles including 'The Color Purple' and 'Beloved'. more

“Dear Aspirations, Although you may change Stay contemplative Help me to dream. I know my reality May send you upstream But you always come back to me You help me maintain, A Sense of wonder A faith in possiblity A fence to jump off A grounded humility When I'm lacking fulfillment And lay wrapped in defeat You say, "you are resilient" get back on your feet”

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Book:Seventeen

Source: Seventeen

“Poetry is not all about good phrases and rhyme schemes, poetry is about poetry.”

Writing Form Poetry Poem

Author:Adewale Joel

“We have memorized America, how it was born and who we have been and where. In ceremonies and silence we say the words, telling the stories, singing the old songs. We like the places they take us. Mostly we do.”

Stories America Poetry History Poem

Book:Some Jazz a While: Collected Poems

Source: Some Jazz a While: Collected Poems

“Who were many people coming together cannot become one people falling apart. Who dreamed for every child an even chance cannot let luck alone turn doorknobs or not. Whose law was never so much of the hand as the head cannot let chaos make its way to the heart. Who have seen learning struggle from teacher to child cannot let ignorance spread itself like rot. We know what we have done and what we have said, and how we have grown, degree by slow degree, believing ourselves toward all we have tried to become— just and compassionate, equal, able, and free.”