Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.

Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.

Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

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 begin.