If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

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.

An act of redemption, the ultimate act of personal grace, is an undervalued form of courage.

Mark 12:34When Jesus saw that he had answered wisely, he said to him, 'You are not far from the Kingdom of God.

I think the actors in 'Greystoke' were amazing. They had a really good performance coach called Peter Elliott who's, of his time, one of the greatest simian performance coaches for actors.

All the science in the last few years, or almost all of it, really serves to show that the [climate] effects are larger and more rapid than we had thought even a decade ago.

When we find that God's ways always coincide with our own ways, it's time to question who we're really worshipping, God or ourselves.

While I was gone, I had quintuple bypass surgery on my heart. Plus, I got a haircut.

There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

Better to have an enemy who slaps you in the face than a friend who stabs you in the back.