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I was learning the craft of poetry, which really was an intensive version of what my mother had taught me all those years ago-the craft of writing as the art of thinking. Poetry aims for an economy of truth-loose and useless words must be discarded, and I found that loose and useless words were not separate from loose and useless thoughts.
— Sep 23, 2015 09:29PM
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And have bought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white. - James Baldwin
— Sep 24, 2015 05:00PM
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To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world, before all the guns, fists, knives, crack, rape and disease. The nakedness is not an error, nor pathology. The nakedness is the correct and intended result of policy, the predictable upshot of people forced for centuries to live under fear.
— Sep 22, 2015 01:03PM
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I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates. The language of Between the World and Me, like Coates’s journey, is visceral, eloquent, and beautifully redemptive. And its examination of the hazards and hopes of black male life is as profound as it is revelatory. This is required reading.—Toni Morrison
— Sep 21, 2015 04:19PM
