"We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them."

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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

— Yusef Komunyakaa