"Hold onto what it is you want to do and, at the very same time, let go of all assumptions that you're going to get it done in the way you first planned."
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"I discovered that prisoners responded as I did to poems: as though they'd received bread, actual matter with the power to nourish."
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"In many ways, this self-doubt gave birth to me as a writer. For in writing words down on paper, or making up stories in my head, I could see what I saw without also considering someone else's point of view or having to explain myself clearly... In my imagination,. I was free from interference."
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"...Elmo didn't mean to challenge me. I had handed him the role of censor when, in fact, what my body interpreted as attacks, Elmo intended as invitations. Elmo wanted me to respond with my truth, to do my part to bridge the gap between us... what I perceived as a roadblock, he intended as an avenue for approach."
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