Any single path truly taken leads to all the others. What matters is choosing a starting place - where to stand and begin spinning outward. Even then, you will find that outward and inward become the same direction. The center of the wheel is everywhere.

raised' consciousness means lifelong bumping up against a continually receding ceiling. I mean, who ever 'graduates'?

being Cassandra is a principled choice when there is cause for alarm.

It isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you (a) become really committed to winning, and (b) become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

Listen - life is really going on, right now, around us. Do you see it? Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.