We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."

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"Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."

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"Morning comes whether you set the alarm or not."

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"Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them."

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"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul."

- Ursula K. Le Guin

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