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I always loved science. And in fact, I got a science award in high school. I mean, I loved science, but I think I loved literature more. (Rita Dove)
I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels. View quote
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Nothing is too small. Nothing is too, quote-unquote, ordinary or insignificant. Those are the things that make up the measure of our days, and they're the things that sustain us. And they're the things that certainly can become worthy of poetry. View quote
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Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor. View quote
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I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned. View quote
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It makes me furious to hear haters of all skin colors - especially Christian, Jewish, and Muslim fundamentalists - deride other people because of their different beliefs and lifestyles. View quote
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To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet. View quote
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For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art. View quote
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The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world. View quote
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If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going to have a tough time seeing the value in the shadows, where the thinkers, probers and scientists are keeping society together. View quote
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If we're going to solve the problems of the world, we have to learn how to talk to one another. Poetry is the language at its essence. It's the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words. (Rita Dove)
Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow. View quote
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As an African-American, as a woman I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important. View quote
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I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem. View quote
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Sometimesa word is found so right it tremblesat the slightest explanation. View quote
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I am Rita Dove, the beautiful dove. See my black neck, see my speck. My ass is not so much cracked but i want to get out now. The poet, am I. Am me. View quote
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