Popular sovereignty has to be given by a people to itself, and this is the important meaning of self-determination.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

To operate within the matrix of power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

In utter humility, bow to What Is. And in time, crying one's guts out, howling, bowing to IT, "knowing" comes. As a gift of the Divine.

There is two rules to win your battle, Fight smart & fight alone

I don't even correct people when they mispronounce my name now.

A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin

Man can be conditioned to behave in almost every desired way; but only "almost.

The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let them do it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything.

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.

This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren't afraid of truth.