No one has imagined us. We want to live like trees, sycamores blazing through the sulfuric air, dappled with scars, still exuberantly budding, our animal passion rooted in the city.
ADRIENNE RICH“Support” groups for every kind of human condition, where, in the clichés of that milieu, people “share” and “heal,” the question, “What for?”, “What now?” is no longer asked.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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Reality, the oppressor’s tongue.
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Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else.
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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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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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There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women’s bodies by men.
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What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.
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The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.
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Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.
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The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle, grandchildren tape-recording grandparents’ memories on special occasions perhaps-no casual storytelling jogged by daily life.
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That a war can be represented as helping a people to ‘feel good’ about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.
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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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All new learning looks at first like chaos.
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That primary quality of being which knows itself, its passions, only against an otherness that has to be dehumanized. I grew up in white silence that was utterly obsessional. Race was the theme whatever the topic.
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Or those who still believe that language is ‘only words’ and that an old language is good enough for our descriptions of the world we are trying to transform.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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