We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.

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.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

Judaism is an intellectually based religion, and the single most important theme is that of study.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

When people come at me they can't win, they think they can, but they can't. I'll just walk away.

Like anything else, knowledge must evolve.

Salvation cannot be bought with the currency of obedience; it is purchased by the blood of the Son of God.

I grew up as a kid with very little. I could enjoy a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or peanut butter crackers.

The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

What is often called exceptional ability is nothing more than persistent endeavor.

The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.