Dan

“13. “We survive in exact relationship to the dedication of our poets,” (this page) Angelou says of Black people. Do you think that this is true of all cultures? 14. The book title is a reference to a poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar. Why do you think that Angelou chose this title?”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Prosperity is not hard-wired into human beings; it must be orchestrated and sustained by political leadership.”
― Zachary D. Carter, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes

“Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“Hence the vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower—and this is the burden of the curse of Babel.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays