Fights begin and end with handshakes.
Cameron Conaway
If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.
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The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.
truth lies words
A poet could kill the dead.
poetry reputation
Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.
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We give up our backs and allow religious myths to apply the rear naked choke to our minds.
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Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.
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Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.
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My next fight would not be measured in rounds, but throughout a lifetime. It would sustain and fulfill me longer than anything in the cage could. My opponent, my fight, would be against the slipping aspects of American society.
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.. Real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.
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How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?
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The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.
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We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.
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To live meant feeding my former self to my current self.
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The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive.
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