The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

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.

Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

No man hates God without first hating himself.

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.

If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself.

A true business opportunity is the that an entrepreneur invents to grow him or herself. Not to work in, but to work on.

The forms are part of the mind, or really are the mind, they're just the contents of this universal night.

Perhaps the gods are kind to us, by making life more disagreeable as we grow older. In the end death seems less intolerable than the manifold burdens we carry