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Can individual psychic wounds really heal in an abusive and fragmented society? Audre Lorde has a poem which begins,

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The password is a flicker of an eyelash.
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In such a world women will truly create new life, bringing forth not only children if and as we choose but the visions, and the thinking, necessary to sustain, console and alter human existence-a new relationship to the universe.
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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can’t afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
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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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Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.
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What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many cultures, many tributaries, which, together, make up the American poetry of the late twentieth century.
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Just as traffic symbols, when driving, make us almost unconsciously aware of a steep hill, an intersection, an icy bridge etc.
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When I talk of taking a trip I mean forever.
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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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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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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No woman is really an insider in the institutions fathered by masculine consciousness.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.
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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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As a society in turmoil, we are going to see more, and more various, attempts to simulate order through repression; and art is a historical target for such efforts.
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