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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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
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I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions.
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Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
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Self-expression is impossible in relation with other men; their self-expression interferes with it. The greatest heights of self-expression in poetry, music, painting – are achieved by men who are supremely alone.
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It's what my friends always tell me, that I'm a strong person and the best. But my head has to be clear before I run so nothing upsets me.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
