"Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate."

-- Marvin Bell

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“Young man, two are the forces most precious to mankind. The first is Demeter, the Goddess. She is the Earth -- or any name you wish to call her -- and she sustains humanity with solid food. Next came Dionysus, the son of the virgin, bringing the counterpart to bread: wine and the blessings of life's flowing juices. His blood, the blood of the grape, lightens the burden of our mortal misery. Though himself a God, it is his blood we pour out to offer thanks to the Gods. And through him, we are blessed.”
“Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.”

Source : Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage
“Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.”
“One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.”
“Companies prefer to put money in the pockets of shareholders or to hoard cash rather than to raise wages or invest.”
“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.”
“I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.”
“A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.”

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