We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

I feel really - actually - quite terrified about the world as it now exists. The kind of sucking the world dry for a dollar seems to me to be even worse (though it was hard for me to imagine 30 years ago that it could get worse) and the idea that bling and profit over human beings is really more and more a credible idea; people don't even examine it with any kind of question: I find that really terrifying.

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

We're impacted by all the intersections of our identities and those then are reflected on what our choices are.

I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.

Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.

Sex may be private in the way that you make love, but it's not private in the context of the world we live in.