[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

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.

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.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

Whatever the questions that trouble you just get up and ask, don't let them suffocate you. Because questions not asked will stay questions unanswered.

Home is not as much about a place you belong, as people you belong to.

No one can know the infinite importance of a tiny drop of water better than a thirsty bird or a little ant or a man of desert!

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

I got started dancing because I knew it was one way to meet girls.

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

Democratic Party is a party that's just out of touch with who the electorate is and who Americans are.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

He hadn't realized yet that Gansey could persuade even the sun to pause and give him the time.

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.