To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open com….

Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which i….

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action..

My hope emerges from those places of struggle where I witness individuals positively transforming their lives and the world around them. Educating is….

It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always….

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply..

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other..

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters..

I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way..

We know that so much of the war that is happening is the attempt of one group to snatch the resources of another group..

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow..

The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of ….

My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives..

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love..

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics..

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity..

The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating..

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic..

To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination..

Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation..

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our ….