Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

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.

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.

I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form" states the Heart Sutra, one of the best known ancient Buddhist texts. The essence of all things is emptiness.

You are going Uruguay, and I'm going my way

We're too busy busting whorehouses or solving murders. That's what makes the show so funny

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

Saying someone is ugly doesn't make you any prettier.

I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly. I'll do what it takes till I touch the sky.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.