If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that only a few people have.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

We're impacted by all the intersections of our identities and those then are reflected on what our choices are.

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.

Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.

To feel loved again feels good, but to know they don't love you make things worse.

The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

I always wanted to play the boyfriends of doomed girls.

She wanted to feel safe. Untouchable in her home. The ultimate female fantasy.

You're going to set us all on fire, you homicidal feral fruitcake.

We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.

Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.