When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

There is no Hierarchy of Oppressions

I have always wanted to be both man and woman, to incorporate the strongest and richest parts of my mother and father within/into me - to share valleys and mountains upon my body the way the earth does in hills and peaks.

Divide and conquer must become define and empower.

You will never be able to defend your city while shouting.