All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.

Everything wanna be loved. Us sing and dance, and holla just wanting to be loved.

During my years of being close to people engaged in changing the world I have seen fear turn into courage. Sorrow into joy. Funerals into celebration. Because whatever the consequences, people, standing side by side, have expressed who they really are, and that ultimately they believe in the love of the world and each other enough to be that.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

Human compassion is equal to human cruelty, and it is up to each of us to tip the balance.