by kmerikallio | Apr 8, 2022 | Quote of the Week
“When I was about eight, I decided that the most wonderful thing, next to a human being, was a book.”
by kmerikallio | Apr 1, 2022 | Quote of the Week
“The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.”
by kmerikallio | Mar 25, 2022 | Quote of the Week, Quotes
“My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.”
by kmerikallio | Mar 11, 2022 | Quote of the Week
“The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills that it have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion… elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.”
by kmerikallio | Mar 3, 2022 | Quote of the Week
“The words loved me and I loved them in return.” Sanchez is one of the most influential black woman poets. Her poems have been widely anthologized, and are collected in Home Coming (1969), We a BaddDDD People (1970), A Blues Book for Blue Black Magical Women...
by kmerikallio | Feb 24, 2022 | Quote of the Week
“As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books—their memory never fails.”
