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.

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 passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

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

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

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

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