The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

I am a citizen of a country that has just undergone a thieved election, a country deeply and dangerously divided between rich and poor, but also between rich and middle class. What I believe in and what my government represents are not the same thing.

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

The will to change begins in the body, not in the mind.

I wanted him [my father] to cherish and approve of me, not as he had when I was a child, but as the woman I was, who had her own mind and had made her own choices.

I think about the possibilities for empathy, for mutual solidarity among gay men and lesbians, not simply as people who suffer under homophobia, but as people who are also extremely creative, active, and have a particular understanding of the human condition.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.