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

Individuals who want to believe that there is no fulfillment in love, that true love does not exist, cling to these assumptions because this despair is actually easier to face than the reality that love is a real fact of life but is absent from their lives.

I get so tired of people acting like, you know, black men and women never help each other, never support each other.

My students tell me, we don't want to love! We're tired of being loving! And I say to them, if you're tired of being loving, then you haven't really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.