I Don’t Think We Can Separate Art

Women's Studies Can Amount Simply To Compensatory History; Too Often They Fail To Challenge The Intellectual And Political Structures That Must Be Challenged If Women As A Group Are Ever To Come Into Collective, Nonexclusionary Freedom.

False History Gets Made All Day, Any Day, The Truth Of The New Is Never On The News.

Art, Whose Honesty Must Work Through Artifice, Cannot Avoid Cheating Truth.

Poetry Has Always Mattered, Through Human History, Through All Kinds Of Cultures, All Kinds Of Violence And Human Desolation, As Well As Periods Of Great Human Affirmation. It's Been Associated With The Power Of The Word, With The Sacred, With Magic And Transformation, With The Oral Narratives That Help A People Cohere.

Strangers Are An Endangered Species.