Whatever your calling is ... you have to make sure there's a little more justice in the world when you leave it than when you found it
August 25, 2007 8:35 AM   Subscribe

Grace Paley: poet, activist, Vermonter. 1922-2007.
It is the poet's responsibility to learn the truth from the powerless
It is the responsibility of the poet to say many times: there is no freedom without justice and this means economic justice and love justice
It is the responsibility of the poet to sing this in all the original and traditional tunes of singing and telling poems
It is the responsibility of the poet to listen to gossip and pass it on in the way storytellers decant the story of life

posted by jessamyn (2 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: jeez. -- jessamyn



 
Isn't this a double?
posted by tommasz at 8:46 AM on August 25, 2007


so it is, awesome.
posted by jessamyn at 8:50 AM on August 25, 2007


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