"We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature."

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Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

Alison Hawthorne Deming

#Mind Quotes #Desire Quotes #Poetry Is Quotes

“I really want the sense of black people being interconnected: If you black and you from Chicago, there's a connective tissue we all have. Even if you're not blood related, that doesn't mean I can't look out for you.”
“Our message today is one of hope. It is about potential waiting to be fulfilled: the surest way to meet the global challenges we face now and in the future is to make every mother and child count.”
“Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied, it is not surprising that the Prince is so sympathetic towards the unemployed: he is by way of being one of them himself.”
“When people don't know what you are, you get your heart broken daily.”

Source : "Rashida Jones’ Sister Kidada Agrees “She Passed For White” But Did The Mean Girls At Harvard Scare Her Away From Dating Black Men Forever?". Glamour Magazine interview in 2005, bossip.com. August 6, 2012.
“The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.”
“I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. Its the most radical thing.”
“Sheriff Knezovich's bill was poorly-written and not constitutional, according to many attorneys, including myself, that reviewed it. We want to go forward with something that's going to stand up to the scrutiny that all bills go under once they've been passed into law.”
“I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.”

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