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

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.

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

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.

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.

Path of life, path of light!

Forgiveness, compassion, and kindness are the fundamental ingredients of our beloved humanity.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.

I would much rather be the trusting child of a rich Father, than a beggar at the door of worldly men.

'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

Obsession is beautiful. It's what makes art.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted - and it's a good addiction to have.

The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.