For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.

When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.

Do the Good to Bad then Bad will do Good to you

The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.

It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you

One has not the right to betray even a traitor. Traitors must be fought, got betrayed.

I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself.

San Francisco has just blown us all away. I also understand Angels in America didn't do well there.

It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

A lot of people don't belong in our clothes, and they can't belong. Are we exclusionary? Absolutely.