When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

We have to recognize that the freedom of the individual has to be protected not only from the power of the state, but even more so from economic and societal power.

When I give I give myself.

I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.

Your love made it all worth waiting for some like you.

It is right, therefore, that we not just be called Christians, but that we actually be Christians.

Cautiously avoid speaking of the domestic affairs either of yourself, or of other people. Yours are nothing to them but tedious gossip; and theirs are nothing to you.

Through the Australians, and the Japanese, too, I suppose, the Americans get their message across, but not in a heavy-handed way.

You know your path, child, now follow it.

The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.

My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films.