Occupation: Author Birth: September 25, 1952
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom..
We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic..
I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries..
Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense..
Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurtur….
Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist pa….
Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time..
In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the veh….
It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whe….
Most gay men are as sexist in their thinking as are heterosexuals. Their patriarchal thinking leads them to construct paradigms of desirable sexual b….
The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last..
Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind..
Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, m….
A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love.….
I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in different shapes and….
It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get th….
No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus t….
It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego..
We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plai….
Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justi….
Yearning is the word that best describes a common psychological state shared by many of us, cutting across boundaries of race, class, gender, and sex….