"There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries."

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Kwame Dawes

#Library Quotes

“Once you have the light of God within you, you see things within yourself that you did not know existed. Things that were hidden in darkness are now in light. I see myself as able to forgive... to love... I even see talents in myself that I didn't see before.”
“I think that you will see some significant changes in the [Donald] Trump administration.”
“I always resented the role of a drummer as nothing more than a subservient figure.”

Source : "Max Roach, Master of Modern Jazz, Dies at 83" by Peter Keepnews, www.nytimes.com. August 17, 2007.
“I'm a fatalist. I believe things happen for a reason, that you attract people and situations that are meant to fulfil your path.”
“Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.”
“The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point.”
“As God took me through the journey that became the Bible study Breaking Free, He taught me to look for a common denominator among the things that triggered my destructive habits.”

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