Art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of power which holds it hostage.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

People don't know what it means to be champions. Oklahoma invented it.

Shame occurs when you haven't been able to get away with the 'who' you want people to think you are.

There is nothing but death Our affections can sever, And till life's latest breath Love shall bind us for ever.

I think women directors have to be really tenacious.

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

Love is an act of faith in another person, not an act of surrender.

Don't give up on your ideals. Don't compromise. Don't turn to expediency. And for heaven's sake . . . don't get cynical.

I've always been bossy.