Secret Places

All day long the

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All day long the thoughts that occupy your mind, your Secret Place, as Jesus calls it, are moulding your destiny for good or evil; in fact, the truth is that the whole of our life’s experience is but the outer expression of inner thought. Now we can choose the sort of thoughts that we entertain. … Read more

I wanted to lie

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I wanted to lie hour after hour on a couch, pouring out the dark, secret places of my heart–do this feeling that over my shoulder sat humanity and wisdom and generosity, a munificent heart–do this until that incredibly lovely day when the great man would say to me, his voice grave and dramatic with discovery: … Read more

For even satire is

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For even satire is a form of sympathy. It is the way our sympathy flows and recoils that really determines our lives. And here lies the vast importance of the novel, properly handled. It can inform and lead into new places our sympathy away in recoil from things gone dead. Therefore the novel, properly handled, … Read more

A writer will write

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A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere. Cherrie Moraga