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It’s exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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Alike Biological Bodies Charges Energy Giving Human Nature Nothing Probably Resonant Two
When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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Children Dangerous Embodiment Idea Loving Man Other Patriarchal Themselves
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Art Decorate Dinner Hold Hostage Mean Nothing Power Table
It’s been associated with the power of the word, with the sacred, with magic and transformation, with the oral narratives that help a people cohere.
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Choice People Power Sacred Transformation
Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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Act Back Chapter Critical Direction Entering Eye Eyes Fresh History Looking Old Seeing Survival Text Vision Women
I am suspicious – first of all, in myself – of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people’s tendency to … vampirize American Indian, or African, or Asian, or other ‘exotic’ ways of understanding.
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Love, our subject: we’ve trained it like ivy to our walls.
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Love Subject Trained Wall
The necessity of poetry has to be stated over and over, but only to those who have reason to fear its power.
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Believe Fear Necessity Poetry Power Reason Trying
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Assumption Drenched Know Ourselves Until
All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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Chaos First Learning Look New
If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
ADRIENNE RICH

Again Delta Direction Flow Grasp One River Springing Story Thinking
If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.
ADRIENNE RICH

Alternatives Challenges Experience Imagination Imagine Question
The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.
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Begin Body Change Mind Will
To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
ADRIENNE RICH

Belief Depended Dreamlife Intelligent Mean Multiple Choice Physical Reading Sensation Swirl
[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
ADRIENNE RICH

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Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.
ADRIENNE RICH

Absolute Confusion Defeat Despair Failure Imagination Physical Response War

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