The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

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.

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

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and will to carry on." Walter Lippmann.

That's because you're a highly moral person. I'm not. I don't judge, not even myself.

If there is a god, I think he has a sense of humour. He does not require human beings to protect him from satire.

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

be it peace or happiness let it enfold you

One moment, please... We interrupt our regular program to bring you this special bulletin: It's a nice day outside.

Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.

I run blindly through the madhouse ... And I cannot even pray ... For I have no God.

The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.