Anastacia refused to "pity" herself when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The 56-year-old singer underwent treatment for the disease in 2003 and was given the all-clear but it returned a ...

The late American poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died in 2021 just shy of his 102nd birthday, wrote the poem “Pity the Nation” in 2007, inspired by a poem of the same name by Khalil Gibran.