Lehman Voices Project
"The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized."
What is "Poetry Is Not a Luxury" by Audre Lorde?
"I soon realized that silence was more than the absence of noise; it was an aesthetic to be revered. Yet it was an aesthetic at odds with who I was. Who a lot of us were."
What is Xochitl Gonzalez's essay "Why Do Rich People Love Quiet?"
"Off the Wall" & "Summertime" photographer
Who is Edwin Pagán?
Correct this sentence with punctuation:
I am excited for winter break when school ends I'm going to sleep a lot!
I am excited for winter break; when school ends, I'm going to sleep a lot!
I am excited for winter break: when school ends, I'm going to sleep a lot!
I am excited for winter break. When school ends, I'm going to sleep a lot!
"For you there can be no distance between writing and politics."
What is "Journalism Is Not a Luxury" by Ta-Nehisi Coates?
"Maybe there’s nothing for it but to accept the noise, welcome it, resign yourself to it, or seek out its unsuspected characteristics, like when you learn to stroke an animal on the part of its
flank that it likes best."
What is "Notes on the Fetishization of Silence" by Daniel Saldaña París?
"I heard them and I still hear them
above the threatening shrieks of police sirens
above the honking horns of morning traffic,
above the home-crowd cheers of Yankee Stadium
above the school bells and laughter
lighting up the afternoon
above the clamoring trudge of the 1 train
and the 2 and 4, 5, 6, the B and the D"
What is Ariel Francisco's poem "Along the East River and in the Bronx Young Men Were Singing”?
(Lorde 125)
What is an example of a parenthetical citation?
"HOWEVER, students’ work in schools should not be processed in the same way as nationwide hotel soap distribution for endless consumer consumption. And students should not look and sound identical to one another and peers across the country."
Who is Carmen Kynard?
"In recent years, I have been invited by former classmates to have drinks or dinner in the neighborhood. These invitations make me worry that Brooklyn is dying and that I am somehow a part of it."
What is "Remembering When Brooklyn Was Mine" by Naima Coster?
"Duma says I have the heaviest puerto
of a muy rico mouth, the richest gums
from the sand streets"
What is Noel Quiñones, "Babel Tongue"?
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. The Message. One World, 2024.
What is a MLA Works Cited entry?
"As AI continues to be adopted, it will especially need to be representative of Gen Z, the most ethnically diverse generation in history."
Who is David Veléz Mejia?
"Returning to live in Mexico City has involved, above all else, returning to a noise that, however familiar, still jars."
What is "Notes on the Fetishization of Silence" by Daniel Saldaña Paris?
"Todos me dicen, Tu hablas con una lengua blanca,
blanco, blanquito, este Spanglish resides in my ego."
What is Noel Quiñones's poem "Afirmación"?
Rearrange this sentence to clarify the meaning:
"The suspects were interviewed right after the crime was committed by the detectives."
"The suspects were interviewed by the detectives right after the crime was committed."
"What’s left for us, then, are expressions of style, feeling, and the human mysteries of the creative process."
What is “What’s the Point of Reading Writing by Humans?" by Jay Caspian Kang?
"In order to live in the city, I needed to ally myself, in some concrete, practical, if limited way, with the possibilities."
What is "Teaching Language in Open Admissions" by Adrienne Rich?
"and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive."
What is Audre Lorde's poem "A Litany for Survival"?
A grammatical unit that has a subject and a verb and can stand alone; a complete sentence
What is an independent clause?