"What is the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?"

"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

"My work is to make sure that the people I'm writing about are human, and that they are complex, and that they are not stereotypes."

"If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else."