Silence has never brought us anything of worth.

You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

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

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.