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She wanted to be loved, but not more than she wanted to be heard. She had something she needed to say.
“How, in this country, the wealthiest country in the world, can we allow children to go hungry?”
― Off the Sidelines: Speak Up, Be Fearless, and Change Your World
― Off the Sidelines: Speak Up, Be Fearless, and Change Your World
“When those who have the power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or hear you...when someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked in the mirror and saw nothing. It takes some strength of soul--and not just individual strength, but collective understanding--to resist this void, this non-being, into which you are thrust, and to stand up, demanding to be seen and heard.”
― Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985
― Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose, 1979-1985
“The suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.”
― Kingdom Come
― Kingdom Come
“The Ptolemies were in fact Macedonian Greek, which makes Cleopatra approximately as Egyptian as Elizabeth Taylor.”
― Cleopatra
― Cleopatra
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