All new learning looks at first like chaos.
Interpretation
New learning often feels overwhelming and confusing at first.
This quote by Adrienne Rich emphasizes that the process of learning something new can initially seem chaotic and disordered. It suggests that the confusion and struggle that accompany new knowledge are a natural part of the learning journey, and that through perseverance, clarity and understanding will eventually emerge.
In practice
Motivating students during the first days of a challenging course.
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
The word revolution itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'β
There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness
It's as if, in the mother's eyes, her smile, her stroking touch, the child first reads the message:'You are there!'
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around
I write for young girls of color, for girls who donβt even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.
Good books are for consideration after, too.
You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.
I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.
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