to that piece in each of us that refuses to be silent.

One pays a lot, we all pay a lot, for awareness.

I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.

Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever.

Oppression is as American as apple pie.

Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one’s own actions or lack of action. If it leads to change then it can be useful, since it is then no longer guilt but the beginning of knowledge. Yet all too often, guilt is just another name for impotence, for defensiveness destructive of communication; it becomes a device to protect ignorance and the continuation of things the way they are, the ultimate protection for changelessness.