"I once asked Myung Mi Kim where gender is located in her work, and she said simply, "it's everywhere," resisting the notion that gender needs to be overly inscribed into the text with some kind of message. Hers is the kind of work that has most influenced how I make poetry - the idea that we don't need to enclose or nail down gender or race, for that matter."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Dawn Lundy Martin

#Kind Quotes #Gender Quotes

“No, if it was up to me every record would be brand new studio material but Atlantic records asked me to put out a full live record because my tour really did do well last year.”
“I shall attempt to prove two things: first, that the actions and dispositions of mankind are the offspring of circumstances and events, and not of any original determination that they bring into the world; and, secondly, that the great stream of our voluntary actions essentially depends, not upon the direct and immediate impulses of sense, but upon the decisions of the understanding.”
“Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.”

Source : Ambrose Philips (1768). “Pastorals, Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems”, p.67
“Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself”
“There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.”
“Oh yeah, I would have been a coal miner, I would think, if I hadn't had tuberculosis when I was 12.”
“Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.”
“I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.”

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