Kwame Dawes Quotes

• When people open up and share their stories, you have a responsibility to tell these truths truthfully and with the same quest for grace and beauty that you see in them.

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  Responsibility, People, Grace

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• All memory is fiction.

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  Memories, Fiction

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• This poet is a griot in search of a village.

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  Village, Poet

  Kwame Dawes (2013). “Duppy Conqueror: New and Selected Poems”, p.109, Copper Canyon Press

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• I am most interested in people. I try to capture their complexity and contradiction and beauty. It does not matter where they are from.

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  Gente, Intentando, Doe

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• Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is the beauty of the art form I like to play with.

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  Arte, Juego, Imaginación

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• La rica y compleja historia de Carolina del Sur es la historia de la diáspora africana, y en muchos sentidos, sentí agudamente el sentido de esta memoria colectiva de migración, sufrimiento y transformación mientras vivía en Carolina del Sur.

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  Memories, Collective Memory, Suffering

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• Soy una persona negra. Vengo de una experiencia de exilio y migración. Siempre me he sentido a la vez en casa y lejos de casa. Es inevitable que mi perspectiva sea internacional.

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  Home, Perspective, Black

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• Como sabrás, mi lema es: "Toda memoria es ficción". También podría ser: "Toda ficción es memoria". Desglosadas, estas dos afirmaciones desafían la facilidad de la lógica, pero ofrecen algunas verdades realmente importantes sobre el arte narrativo, como mínimo, y sobre la memoria. Yo diría que todo arte es personal.

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  Art, Memories, Two

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• I believe that all fiction is personal and all writing is at some level personal.

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  Believe, Writing, Fiction

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• I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of it, and do we embrace it as a kind of birthright? I do. And yet, I feel deeply connected to at least two homespaces - Jamaica and Ghana, and more recently, South Carolina.

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  Believe, Ghana, Jamaica

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• With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in America today. What makes this book as important as anything published in the last decade is the irresistible music, the formal dexterity and the imaginative leaps she makes with metaphor and language in these simply stunning poems. This is a very, very important achievement.

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  Book, Writing, America

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• For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music that is created in a wholly modern context of the recording studio (and sometimes that is the sole performance space) is riddled with the kinds of contradictory impulses that we have come to expect from the post-modern. I revel in this, for it gives me, shall I say, permission.

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  Simple, Space, Giving

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• My concern is always that I can do justice to what I see and hear.

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  Justice, Concern, Can Do

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• Racist writing is a craft failure.

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  Writing, Racist, Crafts

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• Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.

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  Stars, Prayer, Writing

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• The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

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  Thinking, Way, Speak

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• Latino poets, are really having a significant impact on American poetics today.

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  Today, Poet, Significant

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• Una de las bendiciones y maldiciones de mi vida es que llevo tantos proyectos al mismo tiempo.

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  Blessing, Life Is, Projects

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• Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

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  Goal, Poet, Publish

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• In reggae I have a model of artistic excellence and possibility that is challenging and inspiring. The poem remains a demanding thing - an object to be understood and shaped into my own sense of self, the same is true of the play, the novel, the short story. Yet, for some reason, I approach these existing genres with the kind of confidence that the reggae artist approaches any song floating around out there.

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  Song, Artist, Self

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• HIV is no respecter of persons. Any of us could find ourselves with the disease, and then what? We tend to stigmatize as a way to deceive ourselves about our invincibility. But it is a delusion.

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  Hiv, Disease, Way

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• Creo que el tipo de estereotipos que la gente tiene sobre los haitianos o sobre los enfermos de VIH existen porque no nos damos cuenta de que son nuestros hermanos, nuestras hermanas, nuestros tíos y tías, nuestros vecinos. Son nosotros. Y no lo digo en sentido metafórico. Son literalmente nosotros.

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  Brother, Uncles, Mean

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• There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

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  Biblioteca

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• I have dear friends in South Carolina, folks who made my life there wonderful and meaningful. Two of my children were born there. South Carolina's governor awarded me the highest award for the arts in the state. I was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. I have lived and worked among the folks in Sumter, South Carolina, for so many years. South Carolina has been home, and to be honest, it was easier for me to define myself as a South Carolinian than even as an American.

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  Meaningful, Art, Children

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