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The joy of poetry is that it will wait for you. Novels don't wait for you. Characters change. But poetry will wait. I think it's the greatest art.

Source: In Voice of Freedom, by Henry Hampton, 1990.
-- Sonia Sanchez, (Sep 9 1934-____), US poet, playwright, educator; She is noted for her black activism; Homecoming, 1969 was her first volume of poetry; she has taught at Rutgers, Amherst and Temple Universities.

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