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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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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

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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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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

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

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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins, "What do we want from each other/ after we have told our stories?" Where do we go to explore our stake with others in such a society?

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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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Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

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

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The women's movement appeared at a very crucial moment in my life. There was a whole political movement asking such questions and others I had never asked. I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.

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

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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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We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

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

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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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You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry.

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Sleeping. Turning in turn like planets rotating in their midnight meadow: a touch is enough to let us know we're not alone in the universe, even in sleep.

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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

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