I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and a narrow understanding of knowledge to hold that "race" is such an overwhelming concept that it negates the validity of any insights contained in a work that may have some racist or sexist aspects.

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

Without justice there can be no love.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

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

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 place - the warmth and comfort of shelter, the feeding of our bodies, the nurturing of our souls. There we learned dignity, integrity of being; there we learned to have faith. The folks who made this life possible, who were our primary guides and teachers, were black women.