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I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.
— Rita Dove
Tags: black, king, black-and-white, people

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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
— Rita Dove
Tags: i-write, write, short, play
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.
— Rita Dove
Tags: writing, college, more, life
To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.
— Rita Dove
Tags: your, speak, practice, you
In working on a poem, I love to revise. Lots of younger poets don't enjoy this, but in the process of revision I discover things.
— Rita Dove
Tags: things, process, enjoy, love
Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
— Rita Dove
Tags: who, go, imagination, success
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