Art is not living. It is the use of living.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.

A kite only flies if it’s tethered.

But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.

All we have to do is to go onward and upward, and keep the commandments of our Father and God; and he will confound our enemies.

Those of us who came to be Christians get to remember that forgiveness cost God the death of God's son. It's an expensive thing in many ways.

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

Crown and cloth maken no priest, nor emperor's bishop with his words, but power that crist giveth; and thus by life have been priests known.

I'm trying to get out of my own way

One thing I love about making an ensemble film is that you can have ten people come away from it with ten different messages.

I'm Irish. We think sideways