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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.

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Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power, or those who still believe that language is 'only words' and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.

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Only to have a grief equal to all these tears!

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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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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

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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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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.

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Re-vision -- the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction - is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.

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One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.

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Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

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We might possess every technological resource... but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless, our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be 'revolutionary' but not transformative.

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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother ... when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.

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The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

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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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When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.

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When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.

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Poetry can open locked chambers of possibiity, restore numbed zones to feeling, recharge desire.

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It will take all your heart, it will take all your breath It will be short, it will not be simple

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There is no 'the truth,' 'a truth'--truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.

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