It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

Hatred is the fury of those who do not share our goals, and its object is death and destruction. Anger is a grief of distortions between peers, and its object is change.

I agreed to take part in a New York University Institute for Humanities conference a year ago. . . .

I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

I have died too many deaths that were not mine.

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

As we come to know, accept, and explore our feelings, they will become sanctuaries and fortresses and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas-the house of difference so necessary to change and the conceptualization of any meaningful action.