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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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Different Guess Mine Sew Skin Stitch Together
I don’t want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won’t deal with it.
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Generation Idea Irrelevant Raised Succumb Tech Television
Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Biology Ignorance Key Ourselves Powerlessness
One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.
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Art Blazed Detachment Glorify Love Spraypaint Torture Typed Wall Year
These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.
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Bear Destruction Longer Scar Witness
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
I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Don't Learning Trust Use
There is no ‘the truth,’ ‘a truth’–truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity.
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Complexity Increasing One System Thing Truth
We have lived with violence far too long.
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Lived Long Violence
What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Changing See Seeing
Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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Assumption Drenched Know Ourselves Until
In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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Language Naming Oppression Power Silence Violence World
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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Create Every Joined Keep Knowledge Long Passive Pipe Plumbing Script Something Used Writing
A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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Cutting Enough Flesh Open Ripped Scar
What I search for continuously in my art is adequate language, language I hope can stand beyond any particular occasion.
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Adequate Art Dysfunction Hope Language Occasion Particular Search Stand
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.
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Change Changing Cities Despair Hope Mean
The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
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Body Feeling Political Touch
What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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Beast Kind Life Turn
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
I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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Art Dignity Hope Overall Thinking
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
We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
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Amazement Both Complexity Confusion Daughter Mother
Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother.
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Becoming Being Breast Cease Fear Feminism Human Male Man Mother Provide Son Women
if we are unaware that women even have a history–we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.
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Bias Drifting History Male Myth Response Similarly Unanchored Unaware Veering Women
It is not really about them though it targets them as consumers.
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Consumer Really Target Though
The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.
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Existence Liar Loneliness Lying Unutterable
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day … the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she’s piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.
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Clay Day Every False History Watches Written

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