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Truly my life, and the story of my life, is a love story.
And it’s a love story: a passionate, very passionate, love story between me and the work to come together with other people to make this planet what it should be for all the life that is on it, and for the children who are going to be born to the children, who are being born to the children who are going to be born.
Everything that I have had the honor and pleasure of doing is summed up by Che Guevara in something we used to quote all the time to remind ourselves. He said, at some point, “above everything else, a true revolutionary is guided, above all, by great feelings of love.” And, you know, people can laugh at that, and they cannot understand it, but for people like me who have had the honor and pleasure of being a part of the movements where people come together out of love to try and make things better, there’s no way really of understanding what has motivated us and kept us going and keeps us going even now in these crazy times than that understanding in my personal life has been full of all kinds of personal demonstrations, ramifications of love, both platonic and nonplatonic, both with men and with women, but primarily with people with whom, for a period of time was shared in the struggle – and that was both individuals and massive numbers of people.
It still lives for me. So, what we’re talking about today and anything we talk about, that’s the background for it and it’s who I am and why I’m so lucky, because it’s never been unrequited love. It’s been love that has fed me and the personal affairs that I’ve had have been in that context that the big love keeps going. Anything that gets in the way of it is irrelevant to me and I have to leave behind.