“I encourage you to cultivate your curiosity and discover how your cultural lens on the world can influence your interactions with people of diverse cultural backgrounds.”
Source: Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding
“Creativity can be reclaimed as a collective, democratic force—one that transcends the individual and becomes a shared resource for community-led movements, grassroots innovation, and resistance to oppressive systems.”
Source: You Are Creative: Free Yourself to Free the World
“I believe God gives us different missions to perform. It is not everyone’s calling to face evil as I have. If you learn tonight that this is not your calling, the true shame would be if you fail to go forward and find out how else you can serve the cause.”
Source: My Government Means to Kill Me
“We all love a woman who'll go all out for the right cause. We start loving her, oh, about a century after her death. When she's alive, a woman who thumbs her nose at the society the rest of us are trying to uphold can be really irritating.”
Source: Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America
“An activist is always broke,
a philanthropist is always rich.
That's the difference between
service and a publicity stunt.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“You are the God, you are the King,
you are Queen Mother of the living.
Yours is not to pamper puritanical pests,
yours is to rise and roar, o citizen of dream.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Revolution is when character expands a hundred folds, and love is placed at the altar of mind - when nothing in the world is so important, as the good of humankind.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“Within me there's a world where consciousness, rights, oneness are the same.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”
“When we see something that beautiful, we call it breathtaking, but we really should call it breath-giving, my friend Rabbi Sharon Brous says to me. Because when suffering constricts the heart, awe stretches it back out, making us more compassionate, more loving, more present.”