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A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#anyone #art #artist #bad #consciousness

I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#any #away #beware #choice #does

The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#poetry #seeking #sources #spirit

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other. ↗

— Ja Rule

#each #keep #makes #other #public

Who made these laws? That's what I want to know. So that's why I wear two crosses now. I call it double cross. I believe in God-not religion. ↗

— Ja Rule

#call #cross #crosses #double #i

If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence. ↗

— Jane Rule

#citizens #had #individuals #instead #life

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique. ↗

— Jane Rule

#artists #bearing #because #each #every

If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us. ↗

— Jane Rule

#became #even #gay #inspire #legislation

Love is the terrible secret people are suspected of unless they're married, then one always suspects they don't. ↗

— Jane Rule

#love #love is #married #people #secret

The message of women's liberation is that women can love each other and ourselves against our degrading education. ↗

— Jane Rule

#degrading #each #education #liberation #love