Toi Derricotte Quotes

• Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

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  Jobs, Successful, People

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• The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

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  Jobs, Artist, Resolve

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• I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.

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  Hate, White, Racism

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• These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are unlike any in our literature.

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  Spiritual, Stories, Literature

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