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

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.

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.

Never been more truthful then right now, looking at you fixes everything.

Whatever you do, do with love to be the success and to find the joy.

Roaring is never a voice for indoors. Roaring sounds better when done outdoors!

Things don’t happen for a reason, things give you reasons to make things happen.

Oh...oh... "You" the big job... should we be impressed!?

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.

I don't really have a talent. I can't sing or act or dance or perform, those talents. All I can do is be myself.

NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.