Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.

...glass words for you, Beloved—rain beads from an abacus of pain...

Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn't. Then move forward or move on.

... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you?

Thanks to the Internet, people we might have only suspected of being idiots can now give us ample evidence.

Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

No matter how exceptional your product, you won't benefit financially if you can't sell it.

God, was I going to have another day of painful thoughts jumping me every time I relaxed? The obvious solution—to just not relax—was kind of sucking.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate.