I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

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.

Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.

Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.

There is no such thing as a Palestinian people... It is not as if we came and threw them out and took their country. They didn't exist.

Time spent on preparation is seldom wasted.

There's the old joke, "What's the difference between country and redneck? Well, that's three hundred dollars."

I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

A point of rest alone explains motion.