Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

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.

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

The universe is a philosophical abyss.

Beauty is a sense of harmony.

One comforting thing about the Trump White House is that you aren't forced to choose between malice and incompetence.

Hope that star of life's tremulous ocean.

In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

Picture this," said Magnus. "Me with a little monkey friend. I could teach him tricks. I could dress him in a cunning jacket. He could look just like me! But more monkey-shaped.

To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.

Reality is a cruel and unintuitive place with frustrating gameplay mechanics. (Press X to thanklessly toil your life away)