I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I’m supposed to take when I one day leave this house.
I am not saying people shouldn’t be held accountable for terrible acts. But holding people in prisons does not necessarily make them responsible or accountable. It makes them bad. It makes them evil. It puts an end to any process of transformation. It hardens them spiritually and psychologically.
People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they’re not enough and not amounting to anything and they don’t feel good about themselves. People have rough times, and everybody’s pretending it’s not true, and we need to break that veneer.
I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It’s actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what’s killing us.
The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it’s kind of like you die. You really do die. It’s like you get that you’re mortal.
Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.
Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain – just from going back through things. It’s almost as if I had the experience and then the meta-experience.
You will touch this joy and you will suddenly know it is what you were looking for your whole life, but you were afraid to even acknowledge the absence because the hunger for it was so encompassing.
I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself – work in progress.
For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we’re in this together.
Since cancer, I feel like I have dreams rather than ambitions, visions rather than plans.
I really want to help stop violence toward women.
I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.
I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.
I’m a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.
The people who are on the front lines every day in hospitals, nurses, the people who are running clinics, the people who are taking care of your children, those are the people who are the lovers of the world, are the good of the world.
I think all my work’s been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We’re all disassociated.
I think violence against women in America has become ordinary – it’s been made absolutely acceptable.
People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.
The love is all around us. I made a life of love.