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I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies.

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suicide is absolute, and if you think you will survive by hiding who you really are, you are sadly misled: there is no such thing as partial or intermittent suicide. You can only survive if you - who you really are - do survive.

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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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Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

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Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.

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

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What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.

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