Because when some people are invisible, everyone suffers.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

Voting isn't the most we can do. But it is the least.

I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."

I don't like writing. I like having written.