“Often poetry, especially the sort of poetry I write, is concerned with looking at the borders between the sensual and the spiritual and seeing them as divided, equivocal, that mystery somehow can break in to the ordinary. And we read poetry I think in part, to gain a sense of that intimacy with things that we can't understand that are unable to be understood but that buoy up our lives.” ThinkingWritingSpiritualBreakOur LivesSeeingMysteryOrdinaryUnderstoodGainsConcernedSensualIntimacyBordersDividedBuoys Author:Kevin Hart
“We have to convince the white worker that they have something to gain by forming a solidarity politics with black workers because everything that's happened over the last three to 400 years in America has divided the white and the black worker.” YearsLastsAmericaThreeBlackWhiteHappenedGainsWorkersConvinceDividedSolidarity Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“The world is divided into those who understand me and those who don’t. In the case of the latter, I simply leave them to torment themselves trying to gain my sympathy.” WorldTryingCasesGainsHard TimesLatterDividedTormentUnderstand MeMy Sympathy Author:Paulo Coelho
“To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.” Has BeensMadeTodayEducationStudentsGainsExcellenceAccessDividedCrucialContinuingPrivilegedEquityIncomplete Book:Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995 Source: Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995