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9) Why, in Poet Ali Ali’s estimation, is “the language of being the minority…one of the most important languages you can ever speak in your life” (4)? Is this a language that you also speak?
Poet Ali says this by feeling more connected to a minority compared to other languages. As poet Ali states “how you feel in that position of compromise will directly determine how you act in that position of power.”(4)
10) Among the questions posed by Poet Ali toward the end of his talk, he asks, “Why is it that the most spoken-about language in the world is the one we have the toughest time speaking or expressing?” (5). What language is he referencing here, and why do we have such difficulty speaking or expressing it?
I think the language he is referring to is love due to the fact that it is a difficult language to speak or express. Poet Ali states “No matter how many books, how many seminars, how many life-coaching sessions we go to, we just can’t get enough of it.”(5)
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Hi Damian, I completely agree with the quote you chose for Poet Ali’s reasoning behind the difficulties of expressing love. That expressing it is so hard because as people we crave the feeling of loving others and being loved so intensely.