So it is better to speak, remembering we were never meant to survive.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk?Then, leave me to my foolishness.

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow pizza.

Practice makes polish and polish makes money.

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.

Something must be wrong with me to stop a good girl-on-girl fight

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise.

Cement doesn't give as much as snow.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.