I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.

feminism is for everybody

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

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.

I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.

If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.