The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

Sometimes a breakdown can be the beginning of a kind of breakthrough, a way of living in advance through a trauma that prepares you for a future of radical transformation.

I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.

The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

The revolution begins at home.

Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.

The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it.

I’m talking about other kinds of hunger. Desire.

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

My favorite thing is coming up with titles. The majority of the songs I've every written I've always thought of the title before I've written the song.

You can hear rumors. But you can't know them.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

A wealthy doctor who can help a poor man, and will not without a fee, has less sense of humanity than a poor ruffian, who kills a rich man to supply his necessities.

Marketing only really works with word of mouth.

People watched the Masters. It was a huge event. It was at The Garden. Now that it is over here in Europe, it has lost a little bit of popularity in the States.

I hate the assumption that once you're committed to someone you stop treating each other like individuals. I like getting up knowing I am choosing to be with that person.