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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

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We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn’t themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too “political,” “merely” oral and thus unreliable.
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General History Male Merely Over Seen Themselves White Writing
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
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
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Courage Defined Fall Fought Recovery Rose
I am an instrument in the shape/ of a woman trying to translate pulsations/ into images for the relief of the body/ and the reconstruction of the mind.
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Body Instrument Mind relief Shape Trying
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
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Depended Life Must Read Writing
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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Biography Censored Collection Image Letter Lying Memories Omitted Undepiched Unnamed
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.
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Air Animal Blazing Budding City Dappled Exuberantly Imagined Passion Scar Sulfuric Sycamores Tree
It’s as if, in the mother’s eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:’You are there!’
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Children Day Eye Message Mothers Smile Stroking Read Touch
The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs.
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Adolescence Carrying Lesbian Limb Sexuality Stretch
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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Casual Daily Danger Flow Forgetting Generation Grandchildren Jogged Life Lying Memories Storytelling Trick
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
Experience is always larger than language.
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Always Experience Language Larger
A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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Country Own Patriotism Soul Wrestles
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
False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.
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Day Historical History New News Truth
Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
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Art Decorate Dinner Hold Hostage Mean Nothing Power Table

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