Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.

Our strategy is how we cope--how we measure and weigh what is to be said and when, what is to be done and how, and to whom and towhom and to whom, daily deciding/risking who it is we can call an ally, call a friend (whatever that person's skin, sex or sexuality). We are women without a line. We are women who contradict each other.

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.