Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

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.

Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!

There is every board minded man behind the success of woman. But when that man is in legal relation then a woman can triumph among men

Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.

Art attests to what is inhuman in man.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it.

Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself

Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.

The outward expression of empathy is courtesy.