There is no simple formula for the relationship of art to justice…In the end, I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope. My concern for my country is inextricable from my concerns as an artist.
ADRIENNE RICHReality, the oppressor’s tongue.
More Adrienne Rich Quotes
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I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud.
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I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history.
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To do something very common, in my own way.
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I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from “Splittings
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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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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Nothing could have prepared me for the realization that I was a mother … when I knew I was still in a state of uncreation myself.
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Freud rediscovered the underworld of consciousness that European rationalism had denied. But when you have a nation of people in therapy and counselling.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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… this world gives no room to be what we dreamt of being
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Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience.
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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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In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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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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