What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

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.

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.

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

There is no HellHell is Earth itselfAnd the busy, innocently fraud beingsThey are my demons themselves

You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

You can't just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.

I love summer, but my legs are so pale I can never wear shorts or a bikini.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Our Founding Fathers drafted the Bill of Rights to ensure that We the People could determine how best to protect our communities.

Deep inside of every human being is this feeling that nothing is ever going to be complete, that the circle will never connect - and that itself is the secret to infinity.

All men have a right to remain in a state of nature as long as they please; and in case of intolerable oppression, civil or religious, to leave the society they belong to, and enter into another.

We need a president who is focused on defeating every single ISIS terrorist and protecting the homeland, which should be the first priority.

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.