I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

If we move away from either/or thinking, and if we think, okay, every day of my life that I walk out of my house I am a combination of race, gender, class, sexual preference and religion or what have you, what gets foregrounded?