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Reality, the oppressor's tongue.

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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

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There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist's relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

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There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice...In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.

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The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.

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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?

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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.

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These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

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What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.

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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.

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As a very young poet, I had been brought up on that dogma that politics was bad for poetry.

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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist's concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.

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A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing; and that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.

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I came to explore the wreck.

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It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'

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But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

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