Blood Dazzler is Patricia Smith's impassioned lyric chronicle of a beloved city in peril, a city whose people were left to die before us all, a peopl…

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We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we cre…

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If I just work when the spirit moves me, the spirit will ignore me.

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One can live without having survived

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The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.

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There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted f…

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A thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish.

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Poetry is the voice of the soul, whispering, celebrating, singing, even.

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