We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.

I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.

Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.

... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.

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.

Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a girl. We can never emphasize this enough, because this is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.