If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defini….

Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against..

People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities..

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds..

Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us….

In our young minds houses belonged to women were their special domain, not as property, but as places where all that truly mattered in life took plac….

Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unit….

You are not going to destroy this imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it..

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within..

To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways ….

I can be critical of Beyoncé and yet also appreciate aspects of her power and representation. I can especially critique the way white supremacist aes….

I don't have issues around how I'm identified..

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination..

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom….

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it..

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem..

Living simply makes loving simple..

Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with ….

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice..

If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always at war with one another, then we must ….

To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationsh….