Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.

It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.

Relationships are treated like Dixie cups. They are the same. They are disposable. If it does not work, drop it, throw it away, get another. Committed bonds (including marriage) cannot last when this is the prevailing logic. Most of us are unclear about what to do to protect and strengthen caring bonds when our self-centered needs are not being met.

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

Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.

Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in arenas where there has been little or no change.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.