Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all?

Nothing doth worse become a man (I will not say a Christian man) than war.

Self love and forgiveness is a liberation.

I love vegan choices, raw food choices, and I’ll eat whatever I have to in order to get into whatever shape I need to get into for any one particular role.

No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

You know I'm not hung up on this liberating myself from the "black" man - I'm not going to try that thing.

I only fear the death of others. For me, true death is that of the people I love

Nothing has contributed more to the systematic mass incarceration of people of color in the United States than the War on Drugs

Being bullied by a serial bully is equivalent to being stalked or being battered by a partner or being abused as a child and should be accorded the same gravity.

I did not think; I experimented.