I excavate history. I look at lives buried under too much silence. Periods of time, like slavery, have to be revisited, reimagined, so we can move through them.
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Yusef Komunyakaa
These are some quotes by American author Yusef Komunyakaa Poet, who was born on April 29, 1947.
Quotes by Yusef Komunyakaa
Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
