We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

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.

Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities think carefully what your shoulders may refuse and what they are capable of bearing.

I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.

There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.

What we need is not so much personal development, as personal replacement: What we need is not so much personal development, but personal substitution.

I bought almost every single thing that I furnished my house with at the Salvation Army in Hawaii. All second hand. Some of them are kind of retro, and some of them you'd never know.

My dream is to see every girl educated, in every country.

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about

I'm pretty chirpy. I can talk a little too much smack.