Metaphor is the energy charge that leaps between images, revealing their connections.

When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork.

There's something contagious about demanding freedom.

... life is a comedy far darker than drama. It just takes time to learn what to smile at.

Legitimate revolution must be led by, made by those who have been most oppressed: black, brown, yellow, red, and white women-with men relating to that the best they can.

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

Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.