Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude.
ADRIENNE RICHIn 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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“Global culture” is of course not a culture: it’s the global marketing and imposing of commodities and images for the interests of the few at the expense of the many.
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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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It is the lesbian in us who is creative, for the dutiful daughter of the fathers in us is only a hack.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.
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Show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Experience is always larger than language.
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We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
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No one sleeps in this room without the dream of a common language.
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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you… where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
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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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