Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.

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.

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.

Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.

Hold ever before you the vision of the new heaven and new earth.

Drama is a gun that doesn't go off.

Your beautiful mouth was moving like a caterpillar. I reached out and tried to catch it.

If you are going to make a book end badly, it must end badly from the beginning.

Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.

I worked at NBC and MTV for two years, and it was very interesting to see the comparisons of audiences and the way that I would have to present a story to the two different places.

Courage makes a man more than himself; for he is then himself plus his valor.