If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.
Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one?
There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.
I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way.
On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.
My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.
I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.
I have the most incredible parents and they didn't put pressure on me. I grew up in a house and no matter what they thought of things, it was always about my choice.
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
Americans like fat books and thin women.