"In communist countries, you execute your poets. In……" — Kate Braverman

"In communist countries, you execute your poets. In the free world, the poets execute themselves."

— Kate Braverman

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17 Quotes by Kate Braverman

Kate Braverman has 17 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.
The Peruvian flute music is . . . cool. In this music, they have not yet invented the industrial revolution…
All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do…
Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke.…
As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.
I have a great ability to improvise verbally and I am very funny on a dime.
Just being in a room with myself is almost more stimulation than I can bear.
I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the…
I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line…
Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can…

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More Communist Quotes

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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then… — Lester Bangs
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested… — Russell Baker
I was very restless. I really wanted to be a part of a kind of a progressive society. I was… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They… — Kathryn Bigelow
Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their… — Conrad Black
I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement. — Fidel Castro
I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest. — Claude Chabrol
Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they… — Mark W. Clark
The Communists claim that they liberated the Russian people. Yet, when the Great Patriotic War began, these same Russians greeted… — Viktor Suvorov
Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing. — Harry J. Anslinger
I don't like the income tax. Every time we talk about these taxes we get around to the idea of… — T. Coleman Andrews
And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed… — Dinesh D'Souza

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