Natasha Trethewey Quotes
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
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A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Write with abandon and no constraints for first draft. Cut brutally and save in separate files on second draft. Add conflict; don't be afraid to make your characters suffer. Read what you love. Write what you love. Love.
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With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.
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I loved the DOS games, Super Nintendo. And I have a very addictive personality, so I recognize now that I just can't engage in that kind of stuff because I'll never stop. So I no longer play any games.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
