News - Grace Paley

Grace Paley was an antinuclear, antiwar, antiracist feminist activist who was one of the truly original voices of American fiction in the later twentieth century.

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although we would prefer to talk
and talk it into psychological the-
ory the prevalence of small genocides
or the recent disease floating
toward us from another continent we
must not while she speaks her eyes
frighten us she is only one person
she tells us the terrible news we
want to leave the room we may not
we must listen in this wrong world this
is what we must do we must bear it