When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.

The images of peace are ephemeral. The language of peace is subtle. The reasons for peace, the definitions of peace, the very idea of peace have to be invented, and invented again

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

When you raise girls, you're raising children for strangers.