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• If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
• What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?
• Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a…
• For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth…
• I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?
• Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
• If you come as softly As wind within the trees You may hear what I hear See what sorrow sees. If you…
• ... poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within…

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