A central theme of all about love is that from childhood into adulthood we are often taught misguided and false assumptions about the nature of love. Perhaps the most common false assumption about love is that love means we will not be challenged or changed.

I think this is what people misunderstand about Martin Luther King saying to love your enemies. They think he was just using this silly little phrase, but what he meant was that as Black Americans we need to let our anger go, because holding on to it we hold ourselves down. We oppress ourselves by holding on to anger.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.

Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love's path is communication.

... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.