When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

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.

I've really learned to appreciate the magic of challenging yourself. Seeing yourself somewhere new. There's a whole world out there.

Everyone is trying to impress everyone else, trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

Carve your name on hearts, not on marble

The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face

We do not know when he is coming. He is coming tomorrow.

Stand-up, for me, is really more of an addiction, so you have to feed the beast whenever you can.

The world ... is full of people who never knew what hit 'em, their lives are over before they wake up.

[ If I wasn't making music ] I'd probably end up going to school, I never went to school. Or just give up and get my plumber's ticket and move back to Edmonton and become an alcoholic.

If you focus completely on the things you love, then you are on your way to a beautiful life.