You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.

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.

The gentle waters poured from the heavens, baptizing the two angels in a healing shower that washed away their differences, lifting the veil from their sight, and they knew they were the same.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules.

Create your legacy, and pass the baton.

Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.

My aim is to make the viewer become aware of his or her responsibility in what he or she is looking at.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That's literally true.

Any film is at least better than real life.

One of my biggest lessons has been to be easier on myself and not make things such a big deal.

Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.