In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.

In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society