"For a poet, making poems is a way of viewing the world, being in the world, breathing."
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"The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions."
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"I am an artist and a political being as well."
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"Crisis can be an addiction as powerful as any other."
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"Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is."
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"... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand."
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"Women are a colonized people."
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"Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere."
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"Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can."
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"The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending."
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"Ordinary is a word that has no meaning."
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"being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm."
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"Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along."
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"Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self."
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"The egg cackles and lays the chicken."
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"All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form."
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"every actor knows that tragedy, being linear and inevitable, is taxing - but comedy, which depends on the element of surprise, is the hardest act of all."
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"guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring."
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"in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized."
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"Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections."
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