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  • In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

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    Adrienne Rich (1995). “On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978”, p.113, W. W. Norton & Company

  • One line typed twenty years ago can be blazed on a wall in spraypaint to glorify art as detachment or torture of those we did not love but also did not want to kill.

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    Art   Wall   Years  
    Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

  • 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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    Sex   Race   Speak  
    Adrienne Rich (1976). “Of woman born motherhood as experience and institution”
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Adrienne Rich

  • Born: May 16, 1929
  • Died: March 27, 2012
  • Occupation: Poet
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