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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.

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The ocean, whose tides respond, like women’s menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins.
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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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We might possess every technological resource… but if our language is inadequate, our vision remains formless.
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formless Inadequate Language Posses Remain Resource Romance Running Technological Thinking
To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence– words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.
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We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever.
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Crippling Fever Love Loved Unlive
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
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Consciousness Grandmother Market Ourselves Toughness Unacceptable Women
Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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Attempt Correspond Dangerously Daughter Mother Personalities Personality
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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Home Scenery Suffer Suffering
But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that lucid recognition of our possibilities which will keep us impatient, and unresigned to mere survival.
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Envying Imagination Imagine Place Possibilities Struggle Survival Unresigned
In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.
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As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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