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

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If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
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In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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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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Strangers are an endangered species.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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A huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.
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When one woman tells her truth, it makes a space for other women to tell their truths.
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The moment of change is the only poem.
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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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Any woman’s death diminishes me.
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