Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

The revolution begins at home.

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

Our mind has a mind of its own.

You can't fix your mistakes. Once people are dead, you can't make them undead.

The main goal of organizing people is to make them laborers.

I have a preponderance to look smug in photos; something to do with the way my mouth turns up at the corners.

I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.

Even the most sublime ideas sound ridiculous if heard too often. Be the change that you want to see in the world.

I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.

I have lived temperately....I double the doctor's recommendation of a glass and a half wine each day and even treble it with a friend.

Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. We are advertis'd by our loving friends.