The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.
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I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
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It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
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If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
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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.
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