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

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The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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If poetry ceased to exist, it would immediately be reinvented on that same day.
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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The dialectic between change and continuity is a painful but deeply instructive one, in personal life as in the life of a people.
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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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Re-vision – the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for woman more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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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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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives.
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