Since we're each unique, if we've shared many experiences, then it probably has something to do with power or politics, and if we unify and act together, then we can make a change. Revolutions that last don't happen from the top down. They happen from the bottom up.

The kind of power I want is the power to persuade. But I do not want the power to tell other people what to do.

No other form of violence is legitimate. It is never acceptable to use violence to solve a problem. Whether personal or political.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

You do have all five sense when you're in a room together. You communicate and understand each other in a much deeper way. It is a different form of communication from writing or being on the web.

The same big TV antenna dwarfed each roof, as though life here could only be bearable if lived elsewhere in the imagination.