The difficulty of saying I-a phrase from the East German novelist Christa Wolf. But once having said it, as we realize the necessity to go further, isn't there a difficulty of saying 'we'? You cannot speak for me. I cannot speak for you. Two thoughts: there is no liberation that only knows how to say 'I'; there is no collective movement that speaks for each of us all the way through.
Adrienne RichEvery journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
Adrienne RichArt means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.
Adrienne Rich