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Jennah
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“The way you get people to testify against themselves is not to have police tactics and oppressive techniques. What you do is to build it in so people learn to distrust everything in themselves that has not been sanctioned, to reject what is most creative in themselves to begin with, so you don’t even need to stamp it out.”
— Nov 08, 2026 05:24AM
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Jennah
is on page 107 of 190
“How do you reach down into threatening difference without being killed or killing?…. And putting yourself on the line is like killing a piece of yourself, in the sense that you have to kill, end, destroy something familiar and dependable, so that something new can come, in ourselves, in our world.”
— Nov 08, 2026 05:26AM
Jennah
is on page 78 of 190
“I work for a time when women with women, women with men, men with men, all share the work of a world that does not barter bread or self for obedience, nor beauty, nor love.”
— Oct 30, 2026 12:57PM
Jennah
is on page 61 of 190
“And why are Black women supposed to absorb that male rage in silence? Why isn’t that male rage turned upon those forces which seek to limit his fulfillment, namely capitalism?”
— Oct 26, 2026 09:39AM
Jennah
is on page 58 of 190
“And there is, for me, no difference between writing a good poem and moving into sunlight against the body of a woman I love”
— Oct 25, 2026 01:44PM
Jennah
is on page 57 of 190
“and that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and it does not have to be called marriage, nor god, nor an afterlife.”
— Oct 25, 2026 01:34PM