"Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well."

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Source : "Push, Push Against the Darkness: An Interview with Anne Waldman on The Iovis Trilogy". Interview with Jim Cohn, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.

Anne Waldman

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“Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.”

Source : "Should government play a role in addressing root causes of Baltimore’s upheaval?". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 28, 2015.
“I never think of myself as different from anyone else.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.”
“I'd like to find a creative way to write a book that incorporates every Depeche Mode song ever.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“For all of those who wanna profile and pose Rock you in your face, stab your brain with your nose bone.”
“Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.”
“If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It's a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you - the Mystery. The one that can never be solved.”
“People of all sexes have the right to explore femininity, masculinity-and the infinite variations between-without criticism or ridicule.”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (1998). “Trans liberation: beyond pink or blue”, Beacon Pr

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