America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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

All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.

Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.

Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they could have such feelings and leave us alone) but because it is a system that promotes domination and subjugation?

The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.