"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."

-- Susan Griffin

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“I've never thought of my poems as violent. Violence, to me, has so much negativity attached to it - maybe that's my trouble with the word. But ferocious - indeed, I'll take it. And yes, poetry does need a bit of ferocity. Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity - the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.”
“But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.”
“If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.”
“No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.”
“Names generate meaning in a short amount of space â€” they provoke thoughts, questions. That's something I like doing. Of course, you have to be careful. Sometimes it can alienate the reader, it can be another level of mediation, to make a character carry the great burden of a metaphoric name. The character can be a device before he or she becomes a person, and that can be a bad thing for a writer who wants to offer up a kind of emotional proximity in the work. It's a constant struggle, the desire to be playful and the desire to communicate on some very stark emotional level.”
“Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.”
“To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.”

Source : Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.

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