The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

We're impacted by all the intersections of our identities and those then are reflected on what our choices are.

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that only a few people have.

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.

This is a cemetery of memories and I'm grave robbing.

When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.

Anyone who is elected mayor of a place called "Sin City" is allowed to be a drunk.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.

All the strength and force of man come from his faith in things unseen.

Improvise when obstacles present themselves. Happy accidents are magic! Have an open mind.

their relationship was built on friendship, and in matters of friendship he was boundlessly loyal. It was a relationship that would survive the harshest test.

The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.

I prefer to underwrite. Simple, clear as a country creek.