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... This is the paradox of vision: Sharp perception softens our existence in the world.
Susan Griffin
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Susan Griffin
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: January 26
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Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.
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But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.
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Yes we are devilish that is true we cackle. Yes we are dark like the soil and wild like the animals. And we turn to each other and stare into this darkness. We find it beautiful. We find this darkness irresistible. We cease all hiding.
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I know I am made from this earth, as my mother's hands were made from this earth, as her dreams came from this earth and all that I know, I know in this earth, the body of the bird, this pen, this paper, these hands, this tongue speaking, all that I know speaks to me through this earth.
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Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
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Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.
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I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.
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Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.
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Language is filled with words for deprivation images so familiar it is hard to crack language open into that other country the country of being.
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War starts in the mind, not in the body.
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In the system of chivalry, men protect women against men. This is not unlike the protection relationship which [organized crime] established with small businesses in the early part of this century. Indeed, chivalry is an age-old protection racket which depends for its existence on rape.
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Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.
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There is always a time to make right what is wrong.
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Society, like nature, is one body, really.
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What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
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Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
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Waging war is not a primary physical need.
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