Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

The egg cackles and lays the chicken.

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

The Confucian concept and Chinese ideograms for 'woman' and for 'slave' are the same.

A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.

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

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