Tara Ryan-Gallagher
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“Literature is analysis after the event.”
― The Golden Notebook
― The Golden Notebook
“Nature held me close and seemed to find no fault with me.”
― Stone Butch Blues
― Stone Butch Blues
“In the context of tragedy, all polite behavior is self-denial.”
― Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
― Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
“A good bookstore,” Charlie says, “is like an airport where you don’t have to take your shoes off.”
― Book Lovers
― Book Lovers
“For we the people will always be arriving
a ceremony of thunder
waking up the earth
opening our eyes to human
monuments.
And it'll get better
it'll get better
if we the people work, organize, resist,
come together for peace, racial, social
and sexual justice
it'll get better
it'll get better.”
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
a ceremony of thunder
waking up the earth
opening our eyes to human
monuments.
And it'll get better
it'll get better
if we the people work, organize, resist,
come together for peace, racial, social
and sexual justice
it'll get better
it'll get better.”
― Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems
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