The distance doesn't matter

When he put his arms around me, and held me to his chest, everything in me settled. When he spoke into my ear, it all came loose again, as if his words evaporated the gravity of my mind.

Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life.

Space is unimaginably big.

You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

Adoption was a bumpy ride - very bumpy. But, God, was it worth the fight.

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

I'm afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.