1. “Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.”
2. “Our visions begin with our desires.”
3. “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
4. “There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.”
5. “We must recognize and nurture the creative parts of each other without always understanding what will be created.”
6. “Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.”
7. “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
8. “Art is not living. It is the use of living.”
9. “Revolution is not a one time event.”
10. “When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid.”
11. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”
12. “Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so lacking in themselves.”
13. “Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.”
14. “Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.”
15. “Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought.”
