One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

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.

Sometimes you'll remove the log from your own eyes and to your amazement

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

I am going to build something big for you.

The more active I am, the better I feel and the longer I can stay onstage without losing my breath.

I find that the people who don't eat as much candy are really into heavy protein, like steak. I don't eat that.

Finances completely determine what we can do and how quickly we can move.

How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.

I'll pour a cup to you my darling, raise it up, say Cheerio.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

It is a dream of mankind to fly like a bird.