I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

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.

Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

I really need a gin and tonic.

We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

We see only that which we are.

As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.

Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?

Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do.

I don't deny that I get excited, but that's what happens when you're passionate about what you do.