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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

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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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It is part of our refusal of the self-destructiveness of male-dominated society.
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I long to create something that can’t be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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