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Loneliness, which is really lack of love, is the pain of being unable to be present, makes us inhabit our bodies differently. At its most radical, loneliness’ pain relates to a missing presence beyond any comprehension or memory, as the speech of what feels the unspeakable. Where it does not, or rather cannot, remain trapped in the self-soothing, heterosexual loops intended for it, it may become a question of political engagement.
- C.E., Undoing Sex: Against Sexual Optimism
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May 17, 2015
May 12, 2015
Jericho Brown Quote
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Poets whose work supports the status quo often fail to acknowledge that their poems are just as political as poets whose work questions it.
- Jericho Brown
From his text Love the Masters which can be found in The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind
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Poets whose work supports the status quo often fail to acknowledge that their poems are just as political as poets whose work questions it.
- Jericho Brown
From his text Love the Masters which can be found in The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind
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