I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

... it is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.