I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too?

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

[Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through all of those already, in silence, except death. And I remind myself all the time now, that if I were to have been born mute, and had maintained an oath of silence my whole life for safety, I would still have suffered, and I would still die.

The sixties were characterized by a heady belief in instantaneous solutions.

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

Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing.