You have to draw lines between being a journalist and an activist.
I and you and everyone else has to be a political activist.
Unfortunately, I don't think I can call myself an activist because I don't really do enough of anything.
I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.
I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate.
People no longer want to see themselves primarily as consumers, but as activists.
Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
I wasn't a [gay] activist, really.
I am a gay activist and I say that proudly. I voted no on Prop 8.
So few people voted in the elections [of 1996] that the ones who did were called activists.
I'm not a celebrity, I'm an activist. The fact that when I see truth it's really hard for me to sit back and just allow it to happen in front of me on my clock makes me, a lot of times, a bad celebrity.
I was not an activist.
If you are an activist, you have to stay active on a daily basis.
I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.
Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.
I really try not to be like, "I'm an activist."
Being an activist is about getting things done. It's not about standing around shaking your fist in anger.
I was a Republican and I saw the activists and what they were doing, it was intolerable to me.
There was a French activist and writer, Simone de Beauvoir, who said, 'You are not born woman. You become one' ... Words I live by.
I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!
I see myself as a climber and an activist.
