It is learning how to stand alone, unpopular and sometimes reviled, and how to make common cause with those other identified as outside the structures, in order to define and seek a world in which we can all flourish. It is learning how to take our differences and make the strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

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

From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sizes and colors and sexualities; and that among those of us who share the goals of liberation and a workable future for our children, there can be no hierarchies of oppression.

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.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

Silence has never brought us anything of worth.

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive