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Adrienne Rich

All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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Chaos First Learning Look New
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference.
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Code Crack Honor Lie Lying Men Place Political Politician Politics Scandal Statement
You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming.
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Free Hate Night Nothing Notion Play Sacred Writing
Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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Betrayed Caricature Electronic Mass Media Other People Target
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Creating Possibility Telling Truth Woman
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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Across Chalkboard Depended Dream Dredged Life Memories Public Sieved Word Writing
The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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Body Feeling Political Touch
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
Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,
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Abusive Begin Heal Individual Psychic Society Stories Want
Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.
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Enough Language Longer Personal
If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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Been Compared Elder Generation Teach Worship
In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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Believe Country Educated Education Educational Funded People Public School Society Some Speaking
The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
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Casual Daily Danger Flow Forgetting Generation Grandchildren Jogged Life Lying Memories Storytelling Trick
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Depended Life Must Read Writing
No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness. When we allow ourselves to believe we are.
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Believe Consciousness Fathered Insider Inspiring Institution Masculine Really War Woman
Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other – beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival.
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Beyond Daughter Exchanged Female Mother Survival Transmitted Two Verbally

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