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What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance.In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun.On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp -- praise song for walking forward in that light.

~ Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Inauguration Inspirational Obama Poetry

Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last breath of his best friend Thomas Edison in a test tube and kept it evermore. It is on display at the Henry Ford Museum outside Detroit, like Galileo’s finger in the church of Santa Croce, but Edison’s last breath is an invisible relic.

~ Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Breath Henry Ford Henry Ford Museum Relics Soul The Henry Ford Thomas Edison

In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off, and said, There you are, my love.

~ Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Forgiveness Love Marriage

I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-towels are kept and the other knows how to program the DVR, for why should we both have to know?

~ Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Life Love Marriage Tasks

Poetry, I tell my students,is idiosyncratic. Poetryis where we are ourselves,(though Sterling Brown saidEvery 'I' is a dramatic 'I')digging in the clam flatsfor the shell that snaps,emptying the proverbial pocketbook.Poetry is what you findin the dirt in the corner,overhear on the bus, Godin the details, the only wayto get from here to there.Poetry (and now my voice is rising)is not all love, love, loveand I'm sorry the dog died.Poetry (here I hear myself loudest)is the human voice,and are we not of interest to each other?

~ Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Human Inspirational Love Poetry Social Media

In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.

~ Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Art Faith Food Religion Song

Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space.

~ Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander Identity Persona

It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop dead, and how black women are ravaged by HIV/AIDS. The numbers graft to poverty but they also graph to stresses known and invisible. How did we come here, after all? Not with upturned chins and bright eyes but rather in chains, across a chasm. But what did we do? We built a nation, and we built its art.

~ Elizabeth Alexander

Elizabeth Alexander African American Blackness Death Race
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