I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education not having read major works from this canon. Their lives are not ending. And the exciting dimension of knowledge is that we can learn a work without formally studying it. If a student graduates without reading Shakespeare and then reads or studies this work later, it does not delegitimize whatever formal course of study that was completed.

It is necessary to remember, as we think critically about domination, that we all have the capacity to act in ways that oppress, dominate, wound (whether or not that power is institutionalized). It is necessary to remember that it is first the potential oppressor within that we must resist – the potential victim within that we must rescue – otherwise we cannot hope for an end to domination, for liberation.

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

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.