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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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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.
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The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail.
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What I’m finding is that in our increasingly dysfunctional U.S. society, marvelous poetry is being written – out of and amid the dysfunction.
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The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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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 moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.
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I do not think [poetry] is more, or less, necessary than food, shelter, health, education, decent working conditions. It is as necessary.
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