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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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We lose touch with parts of ourselves defined as unacceptable by that consciousness; with the vital toughness and visionary strength of the angry grandmothers, the fierce market women of the Ibo’s Women’s War.
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Every poem breaks a silence that had to be overcome.
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The mind’s passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.
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The channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.
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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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When my dreams showed signs of becoming politically correct no unruly images escaping beyond borders … then I began to wonder
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A patriot is one who wrestles for the soul of her country as she wrestles for her own being.
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I don’t trust them but I’m learning to use them.
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A life I didn’t choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.
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War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.
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Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.
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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. the pattern of the carpet is a surface.
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Carpet Complexity Incraeding Look Pattern Surface System Truth Unseen

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