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"He manages to combine academia with the public sphere in a way that I find wonderful"

"Henry Louis Gates told me that I must assert that I am first and foremost a poet, not just an activist poet. My work …"

"We need to recognize the destructive role played by the media in fanning the flames of the "Black-Jewish Conflict." C…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Pr…"

"Democracy is clearly most appropriate for countries which enjoy an economic surplus and least appropriate for countri…"

"Here, for the last time together, appeared a triumvirate of old men, relics of a golden age, who still towered like g…"