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.

Silence and invisibility go hand in hand with powerlessness.

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

We cannot settle for the pretenses of connection, or for the parodies of self-love.

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too.

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