Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.

Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

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

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.