"I think that all my books are political, I think that I have a political body of work. I am essentially a political woman, but above all I am a poet. I am a poetess."

-- Maria Teresa Horta

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“I never want to possibly take another life in my hands.”
“Lastly, there is bankruptcy, as the United States pours its economic resources into ever more grandiose military projects and shortchanges the education, health, and safety of its citizens.”
“I used to come out here every Fourth of July as a child to picnic and to swim on the island, to tour the fort and wander through it. And all of that time, I never knew anything about the presence of black soldiers on the island. And so, for me, this was a way of trying to tell another history, a lost or a forgotten or a little-known history about these black soldiers who played an important part in American history.â€ Trethewey said. Coincidentally, she was born â€œexactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.”
“I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.”
“I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.”
“I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums”
“This idea of the body as a feast, it stems from Giuseppe Arcimboldo, moves to Viennese artists like GÃ¼nter Brus, and then you have Salvador DalÃ of course, then much later, Marina AbramoviÄ‡ and Ulay, with their nude series in Italy. It's an ongoing conversation. There was nothing cruel about MÃ©ret's Oppenheim piece.”
“I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.”

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