I think that white people are not seen as people with racial histories.

I think social change work is some of the most extraordinary dreaming that any of us have the possibility of doing.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

We're impacted by all the intersections of our identities and those then are reflected on what our choices are.

In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.

If you can't do anything but fight, so every single solitary thing, every single solitary day, then the privilege of dreaming becomes something that only a few people have.

No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.

I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.

Issues of the economy are profoundly affected by how you live out sexual orientation and gender identity.

Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.

When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.

As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent a lot of time doing film, I might then do some radio.

I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.

Now my belly is as noble as my heart.

I think any celebrity that adopts a child from a third world country is a fool.

I was never enthusiastic about being somebody who was supposed to be silent about being a member of something.

It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.