I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

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.

Because of dreams, success is worth pursuing. Because of love, life is worth living.

You're only a victim to the degree of what your perception allows.

Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection

Donald Trump I wouldn't trust as far as I could throw him.

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that.

It's raw, unbridled superstition for these people to claim that words can harm you.

Does that really work, converting someone with a bumper sticker? How weak of a mind do you have to have?

I've never been with an uncircumcised guy.

There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration.