Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.

I am a post-mastectomy woman who believes our feelings need voice in order to be recognized, respected, and of use.

Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our differences or to view them as causes for separation and suspicion rather than as forces for change. Without community, there is no liberation, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between an individual and her oppression... Survival is learning to take our difference and make them strengths.

Art is not living. It is the use of living. The artist has the ability to take the living and use it in a certain way and produce art.

Hatred is a death wish for the hated, not a life wish for anything else.

...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me.

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.