“ What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance.In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, a… Elizabeth Alexander
“ It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop dead, and how black women are ravaged by HIV… Elizabeth Alexander
“ I have not yet learned to use our television DVR. One of the points of marriage is that you split labor. In the olden days that meant one hunted and one gathered; now it means one knows where the tea-… Elizabeth Alexander
“ Using the voice is a physical act, one that first announces the existence of the body of residence and then trumpets its arrival in a public space. Elizabeth Alexander
“ In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms. Elizabeth Alexander
“ Poetry, I tell my students,is idiosyncratic. Poetryis where we are ourselves,(though Sterling Brown saidEvery 'I' is a dramatic 'I')digging in the clam flatsfor the shell that snaps,emptying the prove… Elizabeth Alexander
“ In all marriages there is struggle and ours was no different in that regard. But we always came to the other shore, dusted off, and said, There you are, my love. Elizabeth Alexander
“ What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance. Elizabeth Alexander
“ Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final. Don’t let yourself lose me. Nearby is the country they call life. You will know it by its seriousness. Give me yo… Elizabeth Alexander
“ Art replaces the light that is lost when the day fades, the moment passes, the evanescent extraordinary makes its quicksilver. Art tries to capture that which we know leaves us, as we move in and out… Elizabeth Alexander
“ The story seems to begin with catastrophe but in fact began earlier and is not a tragedy but rather a love story. Perhaps tragedies are only tragedies in the presence of love, which confers meaning to… Elizabeth Alexander
“ Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly. Elizabeth Alexander
“ Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last breath of his best friend Thomas Edison in a test tube and kept it evermore. It is on display at the H… Elizabeth Alexander
