Go to the Scriptures. . . the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.
In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.
We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.
Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream. . . and desire is part of that dream.
The economy is not removed from the way you live out your private life.
If you struggle with issues of documentation, issues of your health care, issues of whether or not you'll be punished for being open about who you are, those things affect how you can be employed or not employed, how you can get an apartment or not get an apartment, how it is that you feel free or not free.
I think that the power of a political vision is deeply engaged with the possibility of how you can live out the liberation that you seek and part of that vision is very much about desire, about the erotic.
But there's a world beyond what we can see and touch, and that world lives by its own laws. What may be impossible in this very ordinary world is very possible there, and sometimes the boundaries between the two worlds disappear, and then who can say what is possible and impossible?
Use minds to solve problems, not lies and bullets.
I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.
We only really learn in conversation after sex.