"In a machine, every part has a function. In a poem, every word needs to be there."

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Elaine Equi

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“I don't want to be in my meetings all sore or be at my son's graduation all sore just because of something I did in the past. (I'm) just learning and being smart.”
“And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart.”
“When the president offered me this job, he told me that if there were situations in which I needed to speak to him or I needed his advice or I needed to ask him a question, that I could go into the Oval Office and I could ask him.”
“If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.”
“Yeah, you know, within the context of TV families, these are pretty unsavory characters.”
“I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of "Apartheid!" I've said many times that the word "Apartheid" means good neighbourliness.”

Source : "Country of My Skull" by Antjie Krog, Random House, (p. 270), 1998.
“Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.”
“We add our voice ... to those who struggle for the recognition and protection for their rights and cultures, because to the extent that we respect our differences, we shall build a life with more justice.”

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