9 parts of desire

Heather Raffo’s

9 Parts of Desire

Visual File by Kathryn M. Lyles

Music: “I Asked When” by Brett Dennen

Representative Artist: Layla Attar

The past is never dead.

It is not even past.

Faulkner

It is no measure of health

to be well adjusted

to a profoundly sick society.

Krishnamurti

Even after I have forgotten what year it is,my middle name,and the meaning of money,

I will still carry in my pocketthe small coin of that moment,minted in the kingdomthat we pace through every day.

Billy Collins

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That's their natural and first weapon.

She will need her sisterhood. Gloria Steinem

pity this busy monster, manunkind,

e.e. cummings

If you're not outraged,

you're not paying attention.

Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Walt Whitman

If it comes with a price; it is not free.

If there’s consequences; it’s not free.

prof. ward chruchill (on free speech)

the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own,that kept you companyas you strode deeper and deeperinto the world,determined to dothe only thing you could do --determined to savethe only life you could save.  

Mary Oliver

I fear it hereand I love it here

I cannot stop what I am hereeither I shall die

or I shall live a ransom for all the daughters of Savagery.

She called it Savagery when you love like you cannot breathe.

mullaya