"I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies"
— Joy Harjo (In Mad Love and War)

"Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense."
— Gertrude Stein

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes."
— Walt Whitman

"I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people."
— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!"
— John Waters

"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."
— bell hooks