Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

All art is the tension, expressed between the uncontainable and its one perfect inevitable form.

My white skin disgusts me. My passport disgusts me. They are the marks of an insufferable privilege bought at the price of others' agony. If I could peel myself inside out I would be glad. If I could become part of the oppressed I would be free.

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.

in the United States ... given the cult of eternal youth, age is ignored unless it can be sentimentalized.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.