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

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.

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

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

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.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.

Film students should stay as far away from film schools and film teachers as possible. The only school for the cinema is the cinema.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

Reproach is infinite, and knows no end.

The young gentleman is correct," he said. Halt raised an eyebrow. "He may be correct, and he is undoubtedly young. But he's no gentleman." ~Halt and General Sapristi speaking of Will

New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved.

How can we speak about "drugs"? It is like speaking about the human race - each person is different, each drug is different!

As a child I'd get given parts as a tree.

The young do not need God, and the old cannot find Him.