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.

The way I'm going now is to focus on peace, to create peace. As Sister Corita said, "I don't go to anti-war rallies. I go to peace rallies."

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

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.

Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker.

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

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.