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"My God, I whispered. The radio said there is no god."

-No Ararat By Ricky Laurentiis

#noah #god #savior

"This is a time capsule for the Coast: words of the people —don’t forget us"

-Liturgy the the Mississippi Gulf Coast By Natasha Tretheway

#Forgetting #tragedy #hurricane

"I woke up, started giving, started getting after one three more. Forty days later & he was the one"

-Seven Testimonies By Nick Flynn

#torture #prisoner #war

"My enemies eat meats & vegetables at tables in white houses where candles blaze, cast shadows of crosses, & flowers"

-Arroz Poetica By Arecelis Girmay

#war #government #society

"Do you know anything about your people? Your father probably took you fly-fishing, helped you with your geometry homework after coming home from work. You'll probably do the same."

-Some Stipulations By Ross Gay

#racism #un-normal #rude

"No. I think only that when a man is a concept he will tell you about the smell of smoke. He will tell you the distance between heartbreak and rage."

-Within Two Weeks By Ross Gay

#emotions #rage #racism

"Fred Sanford’s on in a few & I got the dandruff-free head & shoulders of white people & a cheeseburger belly & a Thriller CD & Nike high tops & slavery’s dead & the TV’s my daddy—

-What I am By Terrence Hayes

#Equality #Mulatto #the times they are a-changin'

"If you feel the least bit attacked—look at that—the final most fascinating fact of the photograph."

-Onlookers with the Burning Body of Jesse Washington STEVE SCAFIDI

#progression #slavery

"we were losing our bodies-digitized salt of bytes and speed we were becoming a powder"

-Techno By Dana Levin

#equal #discrimination

"until someone calls time and they’re done, and everything becomes what it was"

-The Court of Forgetting By James Hoch

#equality #freedom #forgetting

“You can get there from here, though there's no going home. Everywhere you go will be somewhere you've never been. Theories of Time and Space by Natasha Trethawey

#destiny

"Where the roads, buildings, and monuments are named to honor the Confederacy, where that old flag still hangs, I return to Mississippi, state that made a crime of me—mulatto, half-breed—native in my native land, this place they’ll bury me"

#equality #skin color #confusion #freedom?

"I have never wanted another life, but I know the story of pursuit: the dream of a gate standing open, a grill and folding chairs, a new yard boxed in light"

Root by Terrence Hayes

#equality #transition #freedom

"The girls are eager to transform him with a kiss; the boys eager to see him on the basketball court."

-Segregate by Terrence Hayes

#equality #racism #freedom

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Blood at the age of seventeen Blood at the age of one, dumped in a Greyhound bus

Juan Felipe Herrera, “Blood on the Wheel”

#youth #surrender #nosay

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“Her nuclear blood watch soaked, will it dry? His whitish blood ring smoked, will it foam? My groin blood leather roped, will it marry? My wife’s peasant blood spoked, will it ride again?”

— Juan Felipe Herrera, “Blood on the Wheel”

"The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children."

-Lorde "Power"

#evil #rhetoric #poetry

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