We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the s….

One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religio….

Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasy—“to stand outside”—comes to me in those mom….

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression..

Sexism has always been a political stance mediating social domination, enabling white men and black men to share a common sensibility about sex roles….

When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of wh….

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us..

Patriarchy has no gender..

Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we ….

When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other pl….

A central tenet of modern feminist thought has been the assertion that "all women are oppressed." This assertion implies that women share a common lo….

There are times when personal experience keeps us from reaching the mountain top and so we let it go because the weight of it is too heavy. And somet….

…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies tha….

Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim t….

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a worl….

Being oppressed means the absence of choices.

Often their rage erupts because they believe that all ways of looking that highlight difference subvert the liberal belief in a universal subjectivit….

There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by o….

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Weste….

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged..

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis..