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"Learning through doing something I love is the best way to learn."
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"Poetry is the ear to my thoughts when others don't listen."
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"If I wasn't involved in writing, I'd probably be hanging on the corner."
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"I've learned that older people actually care what younger people think and feel."
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"I've learned that when you write, things come out of you that you didn't know you had in you."
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"Poetry is the lines that you write that came from your heart to say what you feel."
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"I've learned from WordPlay that poetry doesn't always have to rhyme, that using imagery, personification, or metaphors etc. can help you get your point across and help it flow."
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"Poetry is the raps I write."
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"Writing is a skill that everyone can have. But you've got to work at it."
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"Poetry is my key to express what I myself can't release from my mind."
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"I am a better writer; I don't always use the same words now."
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"I'm not as nervous in front of people as I was before."
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"I actually want to go to school now, I have to get good grades otherwise my mom won't let me do WordPlay after school."
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"Poetry was boring before WordPlay."
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"This is something you can keep and look at in the future so you can build off of it."
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"Poetry [before] was just cards at Wal-Mart."
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"It helps me with English, I had an F and now I have a B."
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"I learned how to express myself in a way that I can only do on paper."
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"I learned not to fight about it, but to write about it."
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"WordCrew has taken up another part of my life. I have my family - like my regular family at home, my spiritual family at church, and now this is my writing family."
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"I learned that poetry is not just for girls. It's not soft to write poetry."
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"Writing is motivation to go to school."
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"Writing helps us to learn from each other."
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"WordPlay has also helped me on the LEAP test because I am better at reading and understanding things."
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"We like hands on. We learn a lot differently by being hands on.
