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From “Museum of What Is Owed” - “There will be installations: video, visual, fresco, mixed media, for every unwanted hour I survived being unwanted.”
Omotara James
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From “Museum of What Is Owed” - “There will be installations: video, visual, fresco, mixed media, for every unwanted hour I survived being unwanted.”
Omotara James
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From “ I Bet the Trees Are Thinking” - “If they’re willing to pay three dollars a gallon for gas, imagine how much we can charge them for oxygen.”
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From “ I Bet the Trees Are Thinking” - “If they’re willing to pay three dollars a gallon for gas, imagine how much we can charge them for oxygen.”
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From “Why I Want To Know What Yanga Looked Like” - “…and when I speak about songs I am always speaking about freedom.”
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From “Why I Want To Know What Yanga Looked Like” - “…and when I speak about songs I am always speaking about freedom.”
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From “In Case of Emergency” - “This is how you keep yourself safe, keep parts of yourself in different boxes. Trust no one with everything.”
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From “In Case of Emergency” - “This is how you keep yourself safe, keep parts of yourself in different boxes. Trust no one with everything.”
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From “Leave This Place” - “All I crave is the fullness from a canoe, the exhale from shore, to row memory, churning it thick…”
#MarisaTirado
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From “Leave This Place” - “All I crave is the fullness from a canoe, the exhale from shore, to row memory, churning it thick…”
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From “i must tell you” - “I must tell you when i pray i keep one eye cracked & just a bit of space between my palms hoping a bit of God will seep through.”
@champagnepoet
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From “i must tell you” - “I must tell you when i pray i keep one eye cracked & just a bit of space between my palms hoping a bit of God will seep through.”
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From, “Chamber Music” - “Upright Bass
Love that place
Where your hips hits
Your waist
& my head fits
Perfect, rests
Like music”
#KevinYoung
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From, “Chamber Music” - “Upright Bass
Love that place
Where your hips hits
Your waist
& my head fits
Perfect, rests
Like music”
#KevinYoung
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From “Loose Woman” - Sandra Cisneros. “ I’m an aim-well,
shoot-sharp, sharp-tongued, fast-speaking, foot-loose, loose-tongued, let-loose, woman-on-the-loose, loose woman. Beware, honey.”
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From “Loose Woman” - Sandra Cisneros. “ I’m an aim-well,
shoot-sharp, sharp-tongued, fast-speaking, foot-loose, loose-tongued, let-loose, woman-on-the-loose, loose woman. Beware, honey.”
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From “Thieving Ceremony” - “To them we are flesh is still soot, still furnace, still jet, still a cornstalk and juniper tree left burning.”
#JakeSkeets
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From “Thieving Ceremony” - “To them we are flesh is still soot, still furnace, still jet, still a cornstalk and juniper tree left burning.”
#JakeSkeets
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From “Autumn Passage” - Elizabeth Alexander. “…the body that can no longer even make fever but nonetheless burns florid and bright and magnificent as it dims, as it shrinks, as it turns to something else.”
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From “Autumn Passage” - Elizabeth Alexander. “…the body that can no longer even make fever but nonetheless burns florid and bright and magnificent as it dims, as it shrinks, as it turns to something else.”
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From “The Good Fight” - “You with your little ivory-tipped six shooter words, pointed at our dream-filled, churning-up-the-hill, wanting-to-be-better hearts…”
#NikkeyFinney
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From “The Good Fight” - “You with your little ivory-tipped six shooter words, pointed at our dream-filled, churning-up-the-hill, wanting-to-be-better hearts…”
#NikkeyFinney
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From “this is a map” - “this is a map of my city, here are the places in my city where I dare not go.”
#EveLEwing
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From “this is a map” - “this is a map of my city, here are the places in my city where I dare not go.”
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From, “I Don’t Believe in Greats” - “I’m aware some people suffer enough torment to become a lighthouse then live on to old age incapable of seeing what lights their way.”
#MayaAbuAl-Hayyat
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From, “I Don’t Believe in Greats” - “I’m aware some people suffer enough torment to become a lighthouse then live on to old age incapable of seeing what lights their way.”
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From, Papi Pichón as “Boy Finding His Way”.
“Either way, the question stands, what is it to be Indio when the many shades of brown become another gray area?”
@dimitri__reyes
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From, Papi Pichón as “Boy Finding His Way”.
“Either way, the question stands, what is it to be Indio when the many shades of brown become another gray area?”
@dimitri__reyes
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From “Confession” - “My family comes from a land that does not exist on colonizers’ maps.”
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From “Confession” - “My family comes from a land that does not exist on colonizers’ maps.”
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From “True Story, 1986”
“I’m often torn between flying and landing
not sure which one is more graceful”
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From “True Story, 1986”
“I’m often torn between flying and landing
not sure which one is more graceful”
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From “Chris Sacca: No Imbalance of Power” by Elizabeth Mehl Greene. - “I knew well to dispute the welcome of strong women in our industry.”
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From “Chris Sacca: No Imbalance of Power” by Elizabeth Mehl Greene. - “I knew well to dispute the welcome of strong women in our industry.”
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From “Coney Island” - “…you can never own a hurricane. You can’t own the feeling right before that drop.”
Rafael Landrón
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From “Coney Island” - “…you can never own a hurricane. You can’t own the feeling right before that drop.”
Rafael Landrón
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From “Wellness Check”. - “Is my attention on loving, or is my attention on who isn’t loving me?”
#AndreaGibson
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From “Wellness Check”. - “Is my attention on loving, or is my attention on who isn’t loving me?”
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From “Together” by Muhammad Eli. “The watermelon reminds me of the Palestinian flag. The flag reminds me of a kite flying in the sky.”
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From “Together” by Muhammad Eli. “The watermelon reminds me of the Palestinian flag. The flag reminds me of a kite flying in the sky.”
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