I am not lesbian, I am not bisexual, I am not straight. I am just curious

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.