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

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

I cannot afford to believe that freedom from intolerance is the right of only one particular group. And I cannot afford to choose between the fronts upon which I must battle these forces of discrimination, wherever they appear to destroy me. And when they appear to destroy me, it will not be long before they appear to destroy you.

But the question is a matter of the survival and the teaching. That's what our work comes down to. No matter where we key into it, it's the same work, just different pieces of ourselves doing it.

I cannot shut you out the way I shut the others out, so maybe I can destroy you. Must destroy you?

I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.