I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance".

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.

You may need to change your dreams.

I understood the ominous sky because it was so much like you, and I was the sun always willing to burn for our love.

All things in the fulness of time

I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.

Nothing happens without a reason.

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

The guys on the ground are the guys I care about. I've had the most satisfaction telling their stories. But when you're in combat with somebody, yes, a bond does grow.

Reach out a hand to your brother, for the unselfish look out for their fellow man.

Fundamental renegotiation is very, very unlikely to produce any significant change

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.