We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
ADRIENNE RICHThere is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.
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Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
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We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.
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The most notable fact that our culture imprints on women is a sense of our limits.
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One does not give birth in a void, but rather in a cultural and political context. Laws, professional codes, religious sanctions, and ethnic traditions all affect women’s choices concerning childbirth.
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What it is like to live in another skin, what it is like to live in another body, and in that sense to surpass ourselves, to go out beyond ourselves.
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If, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens.
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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.’”
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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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I touch you knowing we weren’t born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.
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I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralysed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something – a great deal – to do with how we live our lives and whom we end up speaking with and hearing.
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Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism.
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