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" I wake up with a sense of wonder. I don't dread the future. I like it. "

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" In my family, I'm the middle of three, and I'm like a lot of middle children. I was one of those kids that floated from group to group. I liked being able to be included in all the groups - the bad kids, the smart kids. "

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" I'd like to sit down with Hillary Clinton onstage and ask her about Glass Steagall and all the big banks and her own campaign contributions. "

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" Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man. "

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" I've grown to love Barack Obama. Hillary is no Bernie Sanders. But she's a politician, and she understands Congress. And I think with that kind of twisted beauty, she could lead our country. "

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" A vote should be generative, not like business as usual, which is what voting feels like for most of us. "

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" I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet. "

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" Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later, stories about us. "

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" When somebody's in love with you, they think it's amazing you've written them a poem, and when they don't love you anymore, they hate those poems. They wish those poems would go away. "

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