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.

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

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.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Your biggest problem is you think you shouldn’t have them. ‘Cause problems are what make us grow. Problems are what sculpt our soul. Problems are what make us become more.

I know that I need my coffee in the morning, and I don't want to talk to anybody at the start of my day!

I didn't really expect to be coming to the Oscars.

It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.

When people are not in the moment, they're not there to know that they're not there.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

I was more alone than if I had been alone.

The truth is, people don't stay the same. People either get better or they get worse.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.