Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I have dear friends in South Carolina, folks who made my life there wonderful and meaningful. Two of my children were born there. South Carolina's governor awarded me the highest award for the arts in the state. I was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. I have lived and worked among the folks in Sumter, South Carolina, for so many years. South Carolina has been home, and to be honest, it was easier for me to define myself as a South Carolinian than even as an American.

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As you may know, my motto is: "All memory is fiction." It could just as easily be: "All fiction is memory." Unpacked, these two statements defy the e…

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I am a black person. I come out of an experience of exile and migration. I have always felt myself to be at once at home and away from home at the sa…

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I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

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The rich and complex history of South Carolina is the history of the African diaspora, and in many ways, I felt acutely the sense of this collective …

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This poet is a griot in search of a village.

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All memory is fiction.

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I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

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Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art…

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