What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's face?

My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.

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.

In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.

Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.