If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

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.

Same mind with same old ideas enters the same old year

To: Anna Oliphant From: Étienne St. Clair Subject: So . . . Does that mean I can call you now?

Most of all I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

Rap is stress, but it pays great.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

I'm asking you, I'm begging you, could you please shut your mouth for just five minutes?" You can imagine the reaction. They ended up in the basement.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

What's interesting about the movie and characters is that they're one thing to the world and another thing in their heads.

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.