Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a plac… - bell hooks

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Poetry is a useful place for lamentation...poems are a place where we can cry out.

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bell hooks (born Gloria Jean Watkins; September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), was an American university professor specializing in social criticism focused on groups distinguished by established differences in social power.

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