there is no politically neutral art..

My grief was a heavy, despairing sadness caused by parting from a companion of many years but, more important, it was a despair rooted in the fear th….

When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true de….

It's interesting--the way in which one has to balance life--because you have to know when to let go and when to pull back.... There's always some lim….

Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diver….

As all advocates of feminist politics know most people do not understand sexism or if they do they think it is not a problem. Masses of people think ….

Any woman who wishes to be an intellectual, to write non-fiction, to deal with theory, faces a lot of discrimination coming her way and perhaps even ….

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope..

Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of ….

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform..

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or w….

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible..

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunat….

I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways..

The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in ….

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind..

I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using this silly little phrase….

Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that lo….

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being..

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition..

... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously..