But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.

There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate.

I fully support the NOH8 campaign and all it stands for and am proud to be a part of it. But I stand by my husband's stance on DADT.

There is a lot of absurdity sometimes, not just in Mormonism but often in other religions that want to pretend that no bad happens in their church, rather than taking care of what bad does happen.

Food became, for dinner parties in the sixties, what abstract expressionism had been in the fifties.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to

The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth.

A good leader gets people to follow him because they want to, not because he makes them.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.