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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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A knowledge that is subliminal, subversive, preverbal: the knowledge flowing between two alike bodies, one of which has spent nine months inside the other.
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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It requires enormous commitment like any art. But there’s a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It’s the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult.
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The impulse to create begins – often terribly and fearfully – in a tunnel of silence.
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Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don’t know you know.
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Women have always been seen as waiting: waited to be asked, waiting for our menses, in fear lest they do or do not come, waiting for men to come home from wars, or from work.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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Young people know they are being betrayed by he mass electronic media. It caricatures them, caricatures others.
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