Toi Derricotte quotes
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“Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.”
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“I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.”
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“The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.”
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“These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are unlike any in our literature.”
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