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Whatever happens with us, your body will haunt mine

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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.

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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

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... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

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For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.

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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents' memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life, there being no shared daily life what with migrations, exiles, diasporas, rendings, the search for work. Or there is a shared daily life riddled with holes of silence.

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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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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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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.

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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected - pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.

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