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I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, ex

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know thats not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. – R. D. Laing

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Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that dont change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow. – Woody Guthrie

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To be in a situation where you have no rights whatsoever is something I wish everybody could experience. Peoples attitudes would change. It would be a better place. – Tommy Chong

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You must change in order to survive. – Pearl Bailey

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