Abraham Lincoln, 15. Even if people leave you, there will always be new ones you will meet. Bobby Unser, 19. So, I’m always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come. rises, bloodied, and breathing and begins walking as if in hope. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Very powerful poem indeed. Benjamin Franklin Fairless, 17. Their hands so oiled / everything they touched / flamed.
It is a deliberate rejection of a colonial logic, but it’s not always a successful gesture. "If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door." “We have three types of friends in life: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and friends for a lifetime.” – Anonymous, 3.
until there’s a border on your back.”, The collection’s titular poem is its final one. The “partition” of If They Come For Us memorializes the violence of borders by refusing the limits of the word partition itself. Vin: We didn't get any more than we expected, old man.
Please choose below to continue. But I discovered an embarrassment of riches. Winston S. Churchill, 11. “People come and go.
Brian Tracy, 8. Just my body & all its oil,” she writes near the end of the poem, summing up her alienation from a body brutally marked by race and war. If you don’t do it, I remember. “Drifting from people. Pain comes and goes, but so does joy. I am four, sitting in a patch of grass
People come and go; situations rise and fall; it’s all preparation for better things. 1. They are meant to cross our path for a reason.” – Anonymous, 15. I buried it under a casket of scribbles. 53.
Michael Dell, 5. Like Midas if Midas / loved fire not gold. “my country is made / in my people’s image / if they come for you they / come for me too,” she writes. People really do come and go. Some people can make a difference in your life and open you up to new opportunities, and others can take you down the wrong paths and influence the wrong decisions. Zhang pointed to the lose-lose situation writers of color face: Pander to the white literary establishment by exploiting trauma for publication, or risk being ignored and silenced. “Because too many times in life there’s just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. Hillary Clinton, 9. And even if someone leaves you, your memories of them, good or bad, will stay, and that’s what matters most in this life. love you because i / hate your lovers loving your peripheral love, she cites Douglas Kearney and Terrance Hayes as influences, their “Call for Necessary Craft and Practice,”. I am trying to understand // my life. The Harder They Come is a 1972 Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell and co-written by Trevor D. Rhone, and starring Jimmy Cliff. For them, each season has its tasks. Do you think I could use your poem as a discussion starter with my A level students (aged 18-19) ? The text, formed from the scraps of a burned notebook chronicling a circuitous reverse diaspora, is deliberately fragmented and refuses easy interpretation. "Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting." Love who you love. Yasmin Adele Majeed is the editorial coordinator for the Asian American Writers’ Workshop. “I was interested in a coming-of-age story that wasn’t about running away from the domestic space but about burrowing and binding and rooting more deeply.”, somewhere a tiger loosens its throat or so she imagines / the rubber trees looming she lifts her paring knife to the day’s throat. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, 10. “Your life will get better when you realize it’s better to be alone than to chase people who don’t really care about you.” – Anonymous, 6.
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“If someone comes into your life and has a positive impact on you, but for some reason, they can’t stay, don’t mourn for too long. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.” – Lea Michele, 29. We would like to collect information during your visit to help us better understand site use. “Faced with inevitable change, the choice was mine. Angela Davis — ‘If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.’ Mr. Kay. Her references to pop music, odes to her pussy, and jokes about microaggressions are purposefully incongruous, and with them she defies the gaze that Zhang and Mehri write about. You spoke through the impossible and you teach us once more how a story, through a faithful, stubborn kind of continuation, can be like a collective strength. an edible flower Forget the failures.
“How we master the forms we choose to write in and speak back to our own traditions is a personal choice,” writes Momtaza Mehri in her critical defense of “instagram poets” like Rupi Kaur, who is often accused of commodifying trauma and her own marginalization as a brown woman. But you need to understand that not all people you meet will be with you for better or for worse, people come and go and only a few will never go and accept you truly. just in case, I hear her say. Genuine people are an endangered species. Along with poets Jamila Woods, Nate Marshall, Aaron Samuels, Franny Choi, and Danez Smith, Asghar is a member of Dark Noise, a multiracial poetry collective whose work addresses shared themes of intergenerational trauma, racial injustice, and queer identity. One of the collection’s several “Partition” poems begins with a riff on the Beyoncé song (“If I say the word enough I can write myself out of it: / like the driver rolling down that partition, please…”). "Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." WBB. Then they came for the labor leaders, but I did not speak out because I was not a unionist. If the “literary world” calls for a flattening of experience, Asghar’s response is to revel in the specific.
William Wallace: ... for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take Henry Ford, 18. As one day became another and others disappeared, gypsies, mentally retarded, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, criminals, anti-socials and emigrants, I remained silent because I was not one of them. In it Asghar addresses “my people my people / a dance to strangers in my blood.” The poem references “First they came…,” the oft-quoted Martin Niemöller condemnation of Germans who acquiesced to Nazis, but where Niemöller denounces the cowardice of those who didn’t speak up for the persecuted, “If They Come For Us” is a firm declaration of loyalty and love to Asghar’s community. The poem references “First they came…,” the oft-quoted Martin Niemöller condemnation of Germans who acquiesced to Nazis, but where Niemöller denounces the cowardice of those who didn’t speak up for the persecuted, “If They Come For Us” is a firm declaration of loyalty and love to Asghar’s community.
That’s why we have photographs and memories.” – Unknown, 38. Because they come and go all the time.” – Mike Singletary, 34. Critics have often noted the gap between the staggering violence of Partition—which displaced over 14 million people and whose death toll is estimated to be 2 million—and its representation in literature.
“It’s a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.” – Marc Almond, 44. “No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. Blood versus oil, the girl she knows herself to be versus the political self, victimized by the state. The blood clotting, oil in my veins. just in case. Click to tweet. Poem by Khristian E. Kay - Poem Hunter. Below are a collection of quotes that emphasize the importance of seizing the moment for greatness. If you wait too long, you miss them."
They say / the faithful go to God with the love // of a child, they say the soul sees everything / without eyes. “I don’t chase people anymore. If they love you and they’re good to you…please don’t screw it up.
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Then it was they came for me, but no one spoke for me because by then there was no one left to speak.Martin Niemoller,1945.What will you say when they come for me?
Sometimes beautiful and sometimes a beautiful ache, but love always remains.” – Jen Storms, 49. So I thought this would be a good time to share 87 of the most inspirational work quotes. “All along your life, people come and go. Creativity, as it turns out, is especially hard when your brain is in survival mode. In building my company Porch.com, we realized that the best opportunities are when you can truly help solve another's problem, in our case, helping improve your home. With a multitude of people that you just temporarily meet, you might feel sad or even depressed when they finally decide to move on without you. But Asghar recognizes the limits and violence of language. For Dark Noise, the work of the poet is inseparable from politics, and If They Come For Us is a collection that reflects those shared aesthetic and political commitments. “Seasons change, so do cities. And though I knew it was someone’s son, I unburied the rooster in the dark and kick-started a fire and roasted it on a spit, my fingers lamping with grease. Some hurt you some make you smile, but each one of them leaves something of theirs with us. Milton Berle, 14. Let us reflect what is truly of value in life, what gives meaning to our lives, and set our priorities on the basis of that. It is a paean to her family—blood and not—who she turns to steadily, out of the past and into a shared future: “we’ve survived the long / years yet to come I see you map / my sky the light your lantern long / ahead & I follow I follow.”.