CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.

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

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

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

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But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

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

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To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

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There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

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The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

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