Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.

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.

History Is The BACKBONEOf FutureLearn and Grow

All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness.

We belong to God. All in us is His.

National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

I'm an 18-year-old boy, and I'm having fun. I'm just not having as much fun as people make out.

Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.

I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close.

The transmission of human life is a most serious role in which married people collaborate freely and responsibly with God the Creator.

I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.

Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.