I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.

We're impacted by all the intersections of our identities and those then are reflected on what our choices are.

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that only a few people have.

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.

Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.

Playing a fool is the best paid role.

All that we call sacred history attests that the birth of a poet is the principal event in chronology.

How do you define a life of high personal worth and lasting success?

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

Pull love closely around youand snuggle into its bliss.

I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.

Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?

How much do I have to hate homosexuals to lie to them about what the Bible says?

I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.