"I believe that we have it in us to rise to this moment, to end the failed experiment of greed, restore the streams of…"

"...injustice is traumatic. It does real damage to our bodies, our relationships, our emotions and intellects. We're a…"

"It's the perversion of sexuality that frightens me. It's the way the women around me exude a sexiness that has nothin…"

"The relationship between mother and daughter stands in the center of what I fear most in our culture. Heal that wound…"

"Not one of those books that ignore us could have been written without our shopping, baking, mending, ironing, typing,…"

"Let's get one thing straight. Puerto Rico was parda, negra, mulata, mestiza. Not a country of Spaniards at all. We ou…"

"sediment has no nationality. Sediment drifts from place to place, on currents of water and air, on muskrat fur and th…"

"We cannot be owned. We cannot own each other. And there is no such thing as a particle of US soil."

"The first rule I remember learning was never to harm or deface a book. The second was never to cross a picket line. (…"

"I know I have dreamt this dream: Jews and Arabs moving in unison, dispossessing the warriors, building new villages o…"