Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.

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.

I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

I'd studied theater growing up and loved that, but didn't have many examples of artists around me.

A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.

A good coach is interested in how tough you are, how you react to adversity, how quickly you get back on defense.

As you know, I am neither Roman Catholic, Protestant Episcopalian, nor Presbyterian, nor am I an Irishman.

We all know that working out reduces stress, but it's equally true that stressing out reduces work.

As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.

From joy all beings have come and unto joy they all return.