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I define “politics” as the on-going collective struggle for liberation and for the power to create – not only works of art, but also just and nonviolent social institutions.

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Art Collective Create Liberation Nonviolent Politics Power Social Struggle Work

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Most of them, though not all, arewhite and male. But even as American society is unravelling, becoming more violent and punitive, wonderful political poetshave been emerging.
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Country Poets have Unravelling Violent Wonderful
Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
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Liquid Poetry Stone Voice Wear Writing
Only where there is language is there world.
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Language Only World
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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Beauty Invisible Made Outlawed Possible Remind Represented Seem Separation Show
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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Breath Colon Double Indication Metrically Musical Notation Pause Slash Sound Space Urgency
It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.
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Beginning End May Moving November Solistice
When men – insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea – have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included
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Children Dangerous Embodiment Idea Loving Man Other Patriarchal Themselves
To conjure with the passive culture and adapt to its rules is to degrade and deny the fullness of our meaning and intention.
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Adapt Conquer Cultural Degrade Fullness Intention Meaning Passive
It takes some strength of soul–and not just individual strength, but collective understanding–to resist this void, this nonbeing, into which are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.
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Demanding Individual Nonbeing Resist Strength Void
Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness
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Biology Ignorance Key Ourselves Powerlessness
When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.
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Creating Possibility Telling Truth Woman
The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.
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Deepest Estrangement Material Most Mutuality Painful
The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.
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Connection Feminist Force Inspirational Motivational Planet Problem Transforming Women
What we see, we see and seeing is changing
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Changing See Seeing
To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously.
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Belief Depended Dreamlife Intelligent Mean Multiple Choice Physical Reading Sensation Swirl
Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.
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Exist Fear Feminism Infantilism Longing Male Mother Much Purely Remain Son

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