The enemy is not men. The enemy is the concept of patriarchy, the concept of patriarchy as the way to run the world or do things.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression.

Music heals miserable heart.

Every secret has a expiration date...

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

There are dreams stronger than death. Men and women die holding these dreams.

Bow and offer your meditation to Eternity, as you would offer a Flower to your lover.

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

Ambitious people know that everything they do and every discipline they adhere to, form the links in the chain of events that will lead them to their final destination.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.