You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been a very negative thing. I know that I have wanted very much to write books that are accessible to the widest audience possible.

I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.

I don't have issues around how I'm identified.

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling.

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.