Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

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.

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

I will give you my days... but, my dear sorceress, your nights are mine.

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual.

I've always been crazy for the American songbook.

The obvious reductio ad absurdum is Holocaust deniers: Should their perspective be provided, for "balance," any time someone writes about the Holocaust?

I expect to make a career out of country music.

Fame is a bee It has a song - It has a sting - Ah, too, it has a wing.

University: ... a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

Like, people are less likely to invest in their retirement when they have more options in their 401K plans than when they have fewer.

We have dignity in Mexico and we have to put a stop to anybody who offends the dignity of Mexico or its institutions.