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.
ADRIENNE RICHA 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.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment to the freedom of all of us, which transcends the category of “sexual preference” and the issue of civil rights.
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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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Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.
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The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief.
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Strangers are an endangered species.
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The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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We move but our words stand become responsible for more than we intended and this is verbal privilege
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Spaces within a line, double colons, slashes, are indications of pause, of breath, of urgency, they are not metrically exact as in a musical notation but they serve (I hope) to make the reader think about the sound of the poem.
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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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It is as though the risks of the poet’s existence can be put to some use beyond her own survival.
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So endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
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Only where there is language is there world.
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What kind of beast would turn its life into words?
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Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
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It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
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