"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."

"Language is power."

"I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs, you have the privilege of not being a slave.'"

"There is no place you can go and be safe, because there is no place that you can go and be free."

"If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else."