“When whom you love or have loved dies, part of you goes too, and you are picked apart, gradually, piece by piece, until oblivion is as natural as sleep. A long day, a long evening, alone, the sky at twilight immense & wonderful.”
Howe, Fanny. Holy Smoke. New York: Fiction Collective, 1979. p. 85.
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“When whom you love or have loved dies, part of you goes too, and you are picked apart, gradually, piece by piece, until oblivion is as natural as sleep. A long day, a long evening, alone, the sky at twilight immense & wonderful.”
Howe, Fanny. Holy Smoke. New York: Fiction Collective, 1979. p. 85.
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“Gold versus silver. Like the reins & bits of circus horses, shining with spittle & sweat, it goes round and round, like circus bells, like circus ropes, the filtering silver dust like pollen, through the long pines & the crowds of birds applauding, lacklustre, but luminous, doomed & blue, tent, carousel, ballon & every other banality, but true.”
Howe, Fanny. Holy Smoke. New York: Fiction Collective, 1979. p. 85.
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“‘Listen, Oneida, listen,’ he said, "Remember the couple escaping from East Berlin into the Western sector, in the dead of the night, in the forest, not long ago? The father
was carrying the child and the child began to cry.”
Howe, Fanny. Holy Smoke. New York: Fiction Collective, 1979. p. 98.
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“Here, too, the reversal of meaning, driven to the point of open contradiction: giving flowers to the police, "flower power" -- the redefinition and very negation of the sense of "power"; the erotic belligerency in the songs of protest; the sensuousness of long hair, of the body unsoiled by plastic cleanliness.”
Marcuse, Herbert. An Essay on Liberation. Boston, MA: Beacon, 1969. p. 29-30.
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“Do not mourn the dandelions—
that their golden heads become grey
in no time at all
and are blown about in the wind;
each season shall bring them again to the lawns;
but how long the seeds of justice
stay underground,
how much blood and ashes of precious things
to manure so rare and brief a growth.”
Reznikoff, Charles, edited by Seamus Cooney. “New Nation.” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975. Boston: David R. Godine, 2005, p. .
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“I think that after listening to the broadcast today, I would like to remind you that behind all those who fight for the Constitution as it was written, for the rights of the weak and for the preservation of civil liberties, we have a long line of courageous people, which is something to be proud of and something to hold on to.”
Roosevelt, Eleanor. "Speech to the ACLU." Chicago, Illinois, March 14, 1940. Accessed Nov. & Dec., 2020.
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“Pinhole at the center of styrofoam cup's plastic lid. Wears the same pair of trousers all week long. Houses without setbacks, with electric garage doors, terraced rock gardens sloping down toward the freeway.”
Silliman, Ron. "From "OZ"." Conjunctions, no. 9 (1986): 31-39. Accessed May 25, 2021. p. 38.
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“could be found by artifice, why not suppose that it might have been chanced upon by nature in the long and ceaseless course of the translocations and interactions that are so characteristic of nature?”
Ritter, William Emerson. The Probable Infinity of Nature and Life: Three Essays. Boston, MA: Gorham Press, 1918. p. 17-18.
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“They didn’t know their own names, couldn’t remember where they’d come from, had forgotten how long they’d been lost. One of them wandered back up a peak. One of them was barefoot.”
Urrea, Luis Alberto. The Devil’s Highway : a True Story 1st ed. New York: Little, Brown, 2004.
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“yes, it is raining
and the morning mist beckons the sun
dawn's veil hovers columns of hunger columns of drought
long for quiet death peacefully, dusk
vultures sit
trading guns
it continues to
not let be, yes
to be naught
no tender touch”
Alurista. Tremble Purple: Seven Poems. Oakland: Unity Publications, 1987. p.5.
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“Knowledge of the environment was essential to ensuring the proper times and places for movement of people, planting, harvesting and maintaining the land and water resources.”
Alurista. Tremble Purple: Seven Poems. Oakland: Unity Publications, 1987. p.13.
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“Two hundred and forty years ago, a small group of Spaniards established a colony in the Kumeyaay lands near the village of Cosoy which they named San Diego. Without recognition of the extensive environmental management occurring all around them, and with the arrogance of their perceived superiority, the Spanish undermined the very ecosystem that had long nourished the native peoples.”
Connolly Miskwish, Michael. Watersheds of the Southern Coast. Briefing Paper. 2009 California Tribal Water Summit. 2009. p. 1.
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"When lands are being developed in the
groundwater dependent areas under current county policy, water quantification is a
key component of determining the suitability of the land to ensure the long-term
sustainability of the water resources."
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“The days are shorter,
but the light seems to stretch out,
to hark
from a long way off.
Horizons
snap into focus,
while shadows
are distended, smudged.
It’s happening again;
we take
discrepancies
for openings...”
Armantrout, Rae. "BORDER PERFECTION." Conjunctions, no. 54 (2010): 157. Accessed May 27, 2021.
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“So let us celebrate in the only way that is fitting. Let the joy of victory be the foundation of an undying vow; a renewed commitment to the cause of freedom. For we know now that victories are possible, though the struggles they demand are long and arduous. So let our elation merge with a pledge to carry on this fight until a time when all the antiquated ugliness and brutality of jails and prisons linger on only as a mere, a mere memory of a nightmare.”
Davis, Angela. "The Gates to Freedom." Speech Delivered at the Embassy Auditorium, Embassy Auditorium, June 9, 1972 Los Angeles, CA.
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