There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.
Rita DoveI keep the drafts of each poem in color-coded folders. I pick up the folders according to how I feel about that color that day.
Rita DoveAs an African-American, as a woman I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.
Rita Dove