Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultiv...

Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

Nelson Mandela

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President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist

July 18th, 1918 - December 5th, 2013