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“We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.”

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Christine O'Donnell is an American political figure born on August 27, 1969. She has held various political positions throughout her career, including serving as a candidate for the U.S. Senate from Delaware. more

“I'm saying that the domain of poetry includes both oral & written forms, that poetry goes back to a pre-literate situation & would survive a post-literate situation, that human speech is a near-endless source of poetic forms, that there has always been more oral than written poetry, & that we can no longer pretend to a knowledge of poetry if we deny its oral dimension.”

Ifs Humans Form Situation Written Source Speech Deny Endless Posts Dimensions Poetic Domain

Book:Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics

Source: Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics

“As for poetry 'belonging' in the classroom, it's like the way they taught us sex in those old hygiene classes: not performance but semiotics. If it I had taken Hygiene 71 seriously, I would have become a monk; & if I had taken college English seriously, I would have become an accountant.”

Ifs Way Sex Class Taken Taught College Performances Belonging Classroom Monk Taught Us Accountants Hygiene Semiotics

Book:Pre-faces & Other Writings

Source: Pre-faces & Other Writings

“We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields which overlap into androgyny or different kinds of sexual desires. But because we live in a Western, patriarchal world, we have very little chance of exploring these gender possibilities.”

Ifs World Kind Littles Different Might Desire Chance Fields Possibility Female Western Males Gender Different Kinds Exploring Clue Sexual Desire Androgyny

Author:Kathy Acker

“In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.”

Beautiful Beauty Nudity Obscene Woman Artist

Book:Notes on the Cinematograph

Source: Notes on the Cinematograph

“It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.”

Men Hard Reason Opinion Strongest Intercourse Circumcision

Book:The Guide of the Perplexed

Source: The Guide of the Perplexed

“When I have sex with someone I forget who I am. For a minute I even forget I'm human. It's the same thing when I'm behind a camera. I forget I exist.”

Humans Artist Sex Forget Behinds Minutes Photography Cameras Who I Am

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.”

Needs Desire Turns Enjoy Possibility Objects Relation Remains Excellence Beloved Originality Erotic Transcendence Appearing Transcendent Retaining

Author:Emmanuel Levinas

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