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

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

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.

Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.

Many people come and go, knowing not why they ever did so.A miserable thing can it be -unconscious of why thy Creator made thee.

Akthent on thee latht thyllable.

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

Misery alternates with euphoria.

Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.

But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

My goal, everyone's goal is to get better at what we do.

I was punished for communicating.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

Our policy is to encourage investment and promote freedom for industry to innovate.