I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.

I am passionate about everything in my life--first and foremost, passionate about ideas. And that's a dangerous person to be in this society, not just because I'm a woman, but because it's such a fundamentally anti-intellectual, anti-critical thinking society. --bell hooks

The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet al the more astute theorists of love acknowledge that we would all love better if we used it as a verb.

Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.

Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.

It is a distortion of the notion of romantic love to want to see obedience as the quintessential expression of respect.