Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

I believe that this nation can only heal from the wounds of racism if we all begin to love blackness. And by that I don't mean that we love only that which is best within us, but that we're also able to love that which is faltering, which is wounded, which is contradictory, incomplete.

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

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.