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Our thinking and feeling are still running in the old cycles, our process may be ‘revolutionary’ but not transformative.

Adrienne Rich

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.
ADRIENNE RICH

Envying Imagination Imagine Place Possibilities Struggle Survival Unresigned
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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General History Male Merely Over Seen Themselves White Writing
We must use what we have to invent what we desire.
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Desire Dream Invent Lose Success Use
Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.
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Cake Crumbling Experience Fantasy Knives Life Mind Moldering Prime Rich Rumour Suspicious Useless Wedding
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. (I make up this strange, angry packet for you, threaded with love.) I think you thought there was no such place for you, and perhaps there was none then.
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Among Counted Down Must None Perhaps Sit Weep
The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.
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Choices Chosen Decision Real Require Revolution Woman
How we dwelt in two worlds the daughters and the mothers in the kingdom of the sons.
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Daughter Dwelt Kingdom Mother Son World
Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young.
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Since Time Week Wrap Years Missing Young
The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Another Mind Obscurity Passion Singling Tale
Behind all art is an element of desire…Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art.
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Another Art Being Desire Element Existence Grief Human Life Love
Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Love Subject Trained Wall
The moment of change is the only poem.
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Change Healing Moment Poem Poetry
Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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Assumption Elemental Entangled Lurk Mesh Motherhood Relation
Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Biology Ignorance Key Ourselves Powerlessness
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
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Counted Down Inspirational Sit Warrior Weep
In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.
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Culture Interstices Language Lying Powerful Secret

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