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Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative – that we’re just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different – that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

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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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I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say ‘I’; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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Every real poem is the breaking of an existing silence, and the first question we might ask any poem is, What kind of voice is breaking silence, and what kind of silence is being broken?
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Whether of love and sexuality or creativity or the sense of connectedness with other beings, human and otherwise?
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I feel more helpless with you than without you.
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In a history of spiritual rupture, a social compact built on fantasy and collective secrets, poetry becomes more necessary than ever: it keeps the underground aquifers flowing; it is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Lesbian existence comprises both the breaking of a taboo and the rejection of a compulsory way of life. It is also a direct or indirect attack on the male right of access to women.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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In a society where some people are far more educated than others, in which public education is ill-funded – here I am speaking of the U.S. – while we build more and more prisons to incarcerate youth who ought to be in school.
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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It is important to do this because we can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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Poetry reaches into places in us that we are suppose to ignore or mistrust, that are perceived as subversive or non-useful, in what is fast becoming known as global culture.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Passion for survival is the great theme of women’s poetry.
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I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don’t mean that everyone can write poetry – it’s an art, a craft.
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If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.
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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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White hate crimes, white hate speech. I still try to claim I wasn’t brought up to hate. But hate isn’t the half of it. I grew up in the vast encircling presumption of whiteness.
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.
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Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap with our mother’s; and, in a desperate attempt to know where mother ends and daughter begins, we perform radical surgery.
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My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.
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