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 cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?

I am very, very happy for Alice Walker.

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

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

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

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