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

If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that only a few people have.

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

I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

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

Is it different to come out now than it was to come out thirty-five years ago? Sometimes. But if you come out now and you come from poverty and you come from racism, you come from the terror of communities that are immigrant communities or communities where you're already a moving target because of who you are, this is not a place where it's any easier to be LGBT even if there's a community center in every single borough.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.