We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.

The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.

I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior.

In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

Well, I do not want to be tolerated, nor misnamed. I want to be recognized.

There is a timbre of voice that comes from not being heard and knowing / you are not being heard / noticed only by others / not heard for the same reason.

Sadomasochism is an institutionalized celebration of dominant/subordinate relationships. And, it prepares us either to accept subordination or to enforce dominance. Even in play, to affirm that the exertion of power over powerlessness is erotic, is empowering, is to set the emotional and social stage for the continuation of that relationship, politically, socially, and economically.