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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,

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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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A book of poems doesn’t just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.
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I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There’s always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.
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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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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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Each feminist work has tended to be received as if it emerged from nowhere; as if each one of us had lived, thought, and worked without any historical past or contextual present.
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No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
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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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What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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The mother’s battle for her child with sickness, with poverty, with war, with all the forces of exploitation and callousness that cheapen human life needs to become a common human battle, waged in love and in the passion for survival.
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