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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others. It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.

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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.

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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits. The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

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I've known great happiness in my life along with great darkness, and a question that has repeatedly entered my poetry has been, how do we use the direct experience of happiness that may be given us, whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?

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I think poets should work in the non-literary, non-academic world, get to know more than a workshop or a university.

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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.

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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child

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

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Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

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

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