I think the human species is very suicidal.

I have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.

One of the most radical things women can do is to love their body.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.

When you rape, beat, maim, mutilate, burn, bury, and terrorize women, you destroy the essential life energy on the planet.

Give voice to what you know to be true, and do not be afraid of being disliked or exiled. I think that's the hard work of standing up for what you see.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

If you are divided from your body, then you are divided from the body of the world.

You have to give to the world the thing that you want the most, in order to fix the broken parts inside you.

I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

All you need is the will and the skill

I think [Albert] Camus felt very solitary. You can see it in all his books.

I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.

Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character.

Let each man have the wit to go his own way.

Wherever there is power, there is very great responsibility to utilize it properly.

Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.

Religion is something that you need to do in silence.

Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.