When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

Without community, there is no liberation...but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.

Afraid is a country with no exit visas.

The love expressed between women is particular and powerful because we have had to love in order to live; love has been our survival.

Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action.

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.