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.

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

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

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