MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood.

People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional -- they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.

Breezy journalistic sentences about wealthy white people unaware that other human beings are real became the rubber stamp product of the elite MFA programs.

You have to notice the truth in order to be able to avoid it.

You have to have coalitions in order to make change in America.

I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible.

The wind smelled clean, like clean magazines. It smelled like invisible ink.

Sometimes a person has to stop talking about art for a moment and take a look around.

What I tend to tell my students is, “When you look in the mirror and see a smart, angry girl who wants to be free, you're seeing a paradigm that Kathy [Acker] helped bring into the recognizable.”

Since Freud, people think you either want to be a man or hate men. You only exist in relationship to men.

If we love and identity people with HIV and other oppressed people, we can help transform the epidemic.

Nations, as well as man, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

I always knew I wanted to have children.

Perhaps the whole world is actually a banquet, to which every living thing is invited. First you come as guests: then eventually you're on the menu.

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

To have six billion people on Earth, two billion of whom are carrying around a warped view of you? That has to register.

The beauty of a movie is that you walk in, you don't know anything about it, you enter a world that's new to you, and that's the magic of being transported.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

Numb is the new deep.

EVERYTHING is dependent on whether or not we care... CHOOSE to care, CHOOSE to want, CHOOSE to do the right thing.

But what's worth more than gold?" "Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?