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I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.

Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.

Transformational politics requires us to challenge the way people think about issues, opening their minds to better possibilities.

Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

There is a deep-felt desire among the people to stand firmly together in dealing with the challenges of the future.

Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.