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What and Who Inspire V

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V (formerly Eve Ensler) is an award-winning playwright, activist, performer, and author of several works, including The Vagina Monologues and The Apology. In a heartfelt, intimate discussion, V shares some of the works that have offered comfort to her as an artist and tireless advocate for women.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageCourage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances. Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it.

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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us about Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence

When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction, and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most...

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A Year with Hafiz: Daily Contemplations

The poems of Hafiz are masterpieces of sacred poetry that nurture the heart, soul, and mind. With learned insight and a delicate hand, Daniel Ladinsky explores the many emotions addressed in these verses.

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The Essential Rumi

The best-selling Rumi book ever is now better than ever! This revised and expanded edition of the comprehensive one-volume edition of America?s most popular poet includes a new introduction by Coleman Barks, and 57 new poems never published before.

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Dream Work

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver’s American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness — so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive — continues in Dream Work.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageTo be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

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The Fire Next Time

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation, gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. "Basically the finest essay I’ve ever read. . . .

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My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter

My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter is poet Aja Monet’s ode to mothers, daughters, and sisters—the tiny gods who fight to change the world.

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The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010

The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965–2010 combines all eleven of Lucille Clifton’s published collections with more than fifty previously unpublished poems.

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The Will to Change: Poems 1968–1970

The young New York poet confronts the reality of life in this collection of nineteen works. "The Will to Change must be read whole: for its tough distrust of completion and for its cool declaratives which fix us with a stare more unsettling than the most hysterical questions...

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Dr. Denis Mukwege

Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege campaigns globally to bring the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war to an end. TIME magazine listed him among the world’s 100 most influential persons and the Carter Foundation named him a "citizen of the world."

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A Call to Men | Tony Porter

At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don't "act like a man." Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other. His solution: Break free of the "man box."

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I Remember Death By Its Proximity to What I Love

Mahogany L. Browne’s evocative book-length poem explores the impacts of the prison system on both the incarcerated and the loved ones left behind. I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love is an expansive poetic meditation on who we think is bound by incarceration. The answer: all of us.

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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope.

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Midnight Cowboy

A naive hustler travels from Texas to New York City to seek personal fortune, finding a new friend in the process.

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