"Poetry is telling something to someone."

-- Marie Howe

#Poetry Is Quotes

“Perhaps we were each allotted only a certain amount of love - enough for only an initial meeting - a serendipitous clumsiness. When it leaves to find others, the difficulty begins because we are faced with our humanness, our past, our very being.”
“This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.”

Source : "Get Mad as Hell About Citizens United and Register to Vote" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.
“And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.”
“I never feared about my skills because I put in the work. Work ethic eliminates fear. So if you put forth the work, what are you fearing? You know what you're capable of doing and what you're not.”
“So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break us down. The three-strike rule is to break down a black man.”
“Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer.”
“You can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.”
“You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.”

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