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.

I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

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

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .