I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself.

Fantasies are real. They have effects on your soul, even though, as I was too young to really step forward.

When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots. They can't get away with their abuse. They can't get away with subjection. They can't get away with subjugation. They can't get away with exploitation. They can't get away with domination. It takes courage for folk to stand up.

The question is really how do we think seriously about this mechanism called a market. It ought to be determining not values but prices.

Sometime you just need to be silent, have a drink and crack a smile or somethin', because the human condition, in general, is just overwhelming in so many ways.

To get up in the morning & do the monumental tasks that face us, our labor is best fueled by love.

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.