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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.

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I define "politics" as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create - not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.

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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

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White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn't brought up to hate. But hate isn't the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness - that primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.

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A language is a map of our failures

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To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails.

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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

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Abortion is violence; a deep, desperate violence inflicted by a woman upon, first of all, herself.

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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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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.To "see the light" too often has meant rejecting the treasures found in darkness.

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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.

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