"I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain."
"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."
"The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot."
"There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives."
"...oppression is as American as apple pie..."
"For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us."