“Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.”

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

Anyway I don’t think we can rely on governments, regardless of who is in power, to do the work that only mass movements can do.

Prison relieves us of the responsibility of seriously engaging with the problems of our society, especially those produced by racism and, increasingly, global capitalism.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.

Poor people, people of color – especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.

I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy.

Consent needs to be present in order for it not to be considered rape. “No” means No & guys need to understand that.

What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

Equal pay for women has always been an issue, eventhough we all know women work 10x harder than most men do.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.

The only weapons that make me dangerous are my mind, mouth and pride, which will surely educate you.

Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of our social problems.

The campaign against the death penalty has been – while a powerful campaign, its participants have been those who attend all of the vigils, a relatively small number of people.

History always seems to repeat itself.

How long can the flowers in my garden survive if the sun suddenly disappears?

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

He disappeared like a ghost in the night but I kept looking for him in the shadows of the moonlight.

I want those forehead to forehead moments with eyes closed deeply. So deeply that the world disappears and every scent of you leaves an imprint on my mind.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

It’s okay to disappear, take your time, to hurt, to feel, to heal.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films.