Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power whi…

Adrienne Rich
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2016). Collected Poems: 1950-2012, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company
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Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage. ✨ Adrienne Rich (2016). Collected Poems: 1950-2012, p.36, W. W. Norton & Company

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