That’s why I want to speak to you now. To say: no person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone.
ADRIENNE RICH“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
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It can speak to people who have themselves felt like monsters and say: you are not alone, this is not monstrous. It can disturb and enrapture.
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I began to feel heard in that movement. But it was because my voice was resonating with other voices.
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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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The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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The marginal, the dependent variables. It lays the foundation for androcentric thinking, and leaves men safe in their solipsistic tunnel-vision.
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And perhaps there is none now; but we will have to make it, we who want an end to suffering, who want to change the laws of history, if we are not to give ourselves away.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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