The abnormal, the sick, the vicious have become more and more interwoven into the violent culture of the United States. Into the way news is seen, into the way movies are seen.

There's something about approaching 50 that's very liberating. Political struggle has always been a 24-hour-a-day job for me. I felt I could never take time out for myself. Now I feel I owe it to myself to develop in ways I've been putting off all my life.

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.

If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.

I really prefer to be kind of anonymous. Because when people know your whole history, they have a tendency to relate to you differently and maybe put you up on a pedestal. I want people to just be normal with me. I just want to live my life.

The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.

Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.