But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

The revolution begins at home.

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

I never stopped loving you, I continued loving you in a different way.

If women are not accorded equal place in the leadership of the Catholic Church and the other great world religions, they will always be treated as inferiors in earthly matters as well.

History is the memory of things said and done.

I want to be with you forever and beyond.

It's a very special thing when you go and get to work with your best friend every day.

The least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable.

It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.

To people in my industry I'm usually a guy that tries to generate his own projects and I remain very elusive when people try and attach me to big projects.

My idea is to integrate black stars into mainstream stars. It hasn't been explored properly. That's what Im doing in Hollywood.

Each year is a new year.