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.

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.

When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious.

What would we do without irony? Check out your own daily reliance on it, the foul-weather friend who's there for you when nothing else is.

We are the women men warned us about.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.