Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat. - Barbara Deming

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I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.

Barbara Deming

Our own pulse beats in every stranger's throat.

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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.

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There should be no censorship of mail.

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We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.

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The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.

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It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains.

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The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.

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. . . there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.

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The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude and nonsensical, and yet it is the staple myth of hundreds of comics called 'Sweethearts,' 'Romantic Secrets' and so forth. The state induced by the kiss is actually self-induced, of course, for few lips are so gifted with electric and psychedelic possibilities.

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