“But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.”
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To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
