I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

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.

It's okay to love something a little too much, as long as it's real to you.

I think most performers are just lazy.

A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.

I probably described more times than I can remember how stressful it was advising the President [Barack Obama] about going after Bin Laden.

The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.

The masses are in reality their own leaders, dialectically creating their own development process.

Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!

When you're the leader, everything is your fault.

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

Thou best philosopher, who yet dost keep/ Thy heritage, thou eye among the blind.