The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.

I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.

I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another’s differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this “In order to love you, I must make you something else”. That’s what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.