Quotes from Holly Near

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

The bravest warriors are the ones who stand for peace.

Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.

My lesbianism is not linked to sexual preference. For me, it is part of my world view, part of my passion for women and central in my objection to male domination.

Why do we kill people, who have killed people, to show that killing people is wrong?

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?