In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.
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To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, f...
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Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.
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But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, in...
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Was it worth while to lay— with infinite exertion—a roof I can't live under? —All those blueprints, closings of gaps,measurings, calculations? A life ...
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Silence can be a planrigorously executedthe blueprint to a lifeIt is a presenceit has a history a formDo not confuse itwith any kind of absence
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The I you know isn’t me, you said, truthtelling liarMy roots are not my chainsAnd I to you: Whose hands have grownthrough mine? Owl-voiced I cried...
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Tongue on your words to taste you thereCouldn’t read what youhad never written therePlayed your message overfeeling badPlayed your message over it w...
