Occupation: Author Birth: September 25, 1952
[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone..
Another response to racism has been the establishment of unlearning racism workshops, which are often led by white women. These workshops are importa….
For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with ….
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love..
I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong..
We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo..
Dare I speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? Dare I speak to you in a language that will move beyond the boundaries of domination- a la….
If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work..
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confe….
Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice..
The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and everyone they choo….
The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as ….
If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions..
The significance of feminist movement (when it is not co-opted by opportunistic, reactionary forces) is that it offers a new ideological meeting grou….
I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life); to the strength a….
Sadly, anarchy has gotten such a bad name. We don't really see much evidence of it because people associate it with reckless abandon..
Class is rarely talked about in the United States; nowhere is there a more intense silence about the reality of class differences than in educational….
This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.” Most children do not learn what to call t….
I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time..
Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be ho….
There is light in darkness, you just have to find it..