I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

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.

If you feel you must become a 'dragon man', " she chuckled as she spoke. "Then I will be by your side every step of the way.

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

If you have no faith, you've lost your battle.

As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.

Well, let me tell you, after three years of Obama, we are hopeless and changeless, and we need Mitt Romney to bring us back, to bring America back.

Words, in their distant past, have the past of my reveries.

A good writer always works at the impossible.

And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.

Life has a way of breaking even the strongest among us.

If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry.