"Thatâ€™s all you really hope for from a book â€“ that itâ€™s going to resonate with young people and empower them in some way. I believe poetry can get kids reading."

-- Kwame Alexander

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“Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.”
“Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had was passed pleasantly enough in conversations, arguments, drinking, making love, wandering, celebrating and rioting. The new proletarian sells his labour power in order to consume. When heâ€™s not flogging himself to death to get promoted in the labour hierarchy, heâ€™s being persuaded to buy himself objects to distinguish himself in the social hierarchy. The ideology of consumption becomes the consumption of ideology.”
“It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart . I must stay here with my hurt.”
“A student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison spent 90 days technology free. He went without a cell phone, Facebook, Twitter, or any social media of any kind. And you know what really improved? His driving!”
“I drop the other Chest to the ground in shock. "What number are you? I'm Four." He squints at me and then offers his hand. "I'm Nine. Good job staying alive, Number Four.”
“When I invite a woman to dinner, I expect her to look at my face. That's the price she has to pay.”
“If given the choice between Righteousness and Peace, I choose Righteousness.”
“Open the GIFTS actually came out of this quest. I ended up going into a pretty deep depression that people don't know about, and now I'm talking about it. I was too focused on, If I'm not working, who am I? Why am I not doing that thing that I want to do the most? Why am I not successful in this moment?”

Source : Interview with Reina Shay Broussard, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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