When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

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.

How does fear become so powerful? We can’t see it. We can’t touch it, yet it gets its claws in us and begins to control us. Sigh. I hate feeling afraid, and I hate, hate, HATE feeling out of control.

That's what it's all about–knowing what you have to lose, but risking the loss anyway.

I'll never suppress my identity -- that's like filing away your fingerprints so the money can slide into your pockets easier.

Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.

God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.

The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta.

Fear depends on time for it's strength! Confront that which you fear with speed.

In fact, depending on how much you earn, you can afford to pay somebody to do almost anything you don't like to do.

In the space of a decade, China and India have emerged as dramatic, dynamic competitors.

Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.