If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

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.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Free yourself from the need to blame others. There are two reasons that you are where you are right now

A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

You're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

Some days I feel like playing it smooth. Some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron.

I complete what I start.