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Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.

Muriel Rukeyser
Tolerance, Taught, Despise
Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.138, Northwestern University Press
Never to despise in myself what I have been taught to despise. Nor to despise the other. Not to despise the it. To make this relation with the it: to know that I am it.