I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

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.

The truth is humble, only those intelligent enough are able to seek and understand it.

Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.

Having unlimited choices can paralyze you creatively.

I look at movies, unfortunately, and I still see a lot of movies [lacking diversity].

My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.

I guess the only way I could describe myself is someone that lives right in the present.

If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.

In any market, in any country, there are developers who make money. So I say all of this doom and gloom, but there will always be people who make money, because people always want homes.