Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

She [my mother] gave me permission to wonder, to dawdle, to daydream.

What can defeat greed, technological superiority, and legal lawlessness ... is discipline, consciousness, and unity.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.... We'd better take the time to fashion revolutionary selves, revolutionary lives, revolutionary relationships. Mouth don't win the war.

We have not been scuffling in this waste - howling wilderness for the right to be stupid. All this waste.

The job of the writer is to make revolution irresistible.

Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.