If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

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

Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.