The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself.

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.

Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy, we have all been programmed to respond to the human differences between us with fear and loathing and to handle that difference in one of three ways: ignore it, and if that is not possible, copy it if we think it is dominant, or destroy it if we think it is subordinate.

Without community, there is no liberation.

I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.