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Checkout quotes by Rita Dove on People

• ‟ The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now.

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• ‟ For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.

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• ‟ I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

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• ‟ I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

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• ‟ People write me from all over the country, asking me, and sometimes even telling me, what they think a poet laureate should do. I found that immensely valuable.

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• ‟ I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

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