One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice.

I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.