When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

The revolution begins at home.

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

Only when man cornered, potential forced to appear.

The next time you have a high-stakes meeting, a presentation, or an important social engagement, practice power posing beforehand to potently and powerfully impact your confidence.

Don't try fixing something that is already broken to begin with.

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.

No one can take advantage of you without your permission.

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

Two weeks together, that’s all it took, two weeks for me to fall in love with you. ♥

Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.