We recognize that all knowledge is mediated through the body and that feeling is a profound source of information about our lives

In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.

[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.

Differences must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic.

The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

...and that visibility which makes us most vulnerable is that which also is the source of our greatest strength.