#try

In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#believe #black #country #dispossessed #i

Life isn't fair, so you have to play the best game you can with the cards you're dealt. ↗

— Marta Acosta

#dark-companion #fairness #games #life #trying

I am becoming the woman I've wanted, grey at the temples, soft body, delighted, cracked up by life with a laugh that's known bitter but, past it, got better, knows she's a survivor-- that whatever comes, she can outlast it. I am becoming a deep weathered basket. I am becoming the woman I've longed for, the motherly lover with arms strong and tender, the growing up daughter who blushes surprises. I am becoming full moons and sunrises. I find her becoming, this woman I've wanted, who knows she'll encompass, who knows she's sufficient, knows where she's going and travels with passion. Who remembers she's precious, but knows she's not scarce-- who knows she is plenty, plenty to share. ↗

— Jayne Brown

#poetry #life

A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life #poetry #life

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? ↗

— W.H. Davies

#poetry #time #w-h-davies #life

Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!... ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#life #poetry #life

Cheapen words and they'll cheapen you ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#philosophy #poetry #wisdom #life

Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#poetry #life

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him. ↗

— Tullian Tchividjian

#pain #life

I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself. ↗

— Anna Kamieńska

#poetry #writing #life