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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown,...

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

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One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students...

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My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

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My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight...

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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we...

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It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.

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In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see,...

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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in...

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I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable...

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CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.

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Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's...

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