Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

We fear that evaluating our needs and then carefully choosing partners will reveal that there is no one for us to love. Most of us prefer to have a partner who is lacking than no partner at all. What becomes apparent is that we may be more interested in finding a partner than in knowing love.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.

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

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.

White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.

Dare I speak ,to oppressed and opressor in the same voice? Dare I speak to you in a language that will move beyond the boundaries of domination- a language, that will not bind you, fence you in, or hold you? Language is also a place of struggle. The oppressed struggle in language to recover ourselves, to reconcile, to reunite, to renew. Our words are not without meaning, they are an action, a resistance. Language is also a place of struggle.