Some women wait for themselves around the next corner and call the empty spot peace but the opposite of living is only not living and the stars do not care.

Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same reason.

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.

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

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.