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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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We have lived with violence far too long.
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To become a politics of asking women’s questions, demanding a world in which the integrity of all women–not a chosen few–shall be honored and validated in every respect of culture.
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And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.
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For now, poetry has the capacity – in its own ways and by its own means – to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.
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If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.
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If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.
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To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery.
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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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Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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Language is power… Language can be used as a means of changing reality.
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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
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A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.
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Motherhood is the great mesh in which all human relations are entangled, in which lurk our most elemental assumptions about love and power.
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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.
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