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.

We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

Change is the immediate responsibility of each of us, wherever and however we are standing, in whatever arena we choose.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

What I leave behind has a life of its own.

Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always that one little piece inside you that wants to be spoken out, and if you keep ignoring it, it gets madder and madder and hotter and hotter, and if you don't speak it out one day it will just up and punch you in the mouth from the inside.

Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.