The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

We must strive for literacy and education that teach us to never quit questioning and probing at the assumptions of the day.

I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber so I don't intend to try any more.

There's never an end for the sea.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

When I saw for the first time by the Word of God that sickness was not the Will of God, everything in my nature rose up to defeat the will of the devil.

I don't care about money.

In my own writing, I've mostly abandoned end-rhyme, but wordplay is still a huge part of my process.

No more gods, no more faith, no more timid holding back. Let us blast out of our old forms, our ignorance, our weakness, and our mortality. The future belongs to posthumanity.

Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful.