Occupation: Author Birth: September 25, 1952
I see myself, in terms of the question of capitalism, as I would support democratic socialism over a capitalist system, because any approach... or pa….
Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product an….
Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (t….
..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes..
The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must beg….
Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness..
Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is..
All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and ….
The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those….
If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, ….
America is a country that would rather talk about race than class..
Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, i….
Stereotypes abound when there is distance. They are an invention, a pretense that one knows when the steps that would make real knowing possible cann….
All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about ho….
Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair ….
I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out. Others are in prison. But in many cases they….
We live in a world with serious class complexes. It is one thing to be a college student with loan debts and another thing to be just dirt poor for y….
Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same..
Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries..
I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I ….
Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another. Committe….