My main tactic is to focus on the people I respect. The people I think are great people. Do I have their respect? Do I have their support? If the answer is "yes," then I'm doing ok.

We've got ego's like hairdos.

When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.

The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

All the decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and opportunity afforded men. Either you are a feminist or you are a misogynist. There is no box marked "other."