The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.

I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."