Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships.

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

Living simply makes loving simple.

Abuse and neglect negate love. Care and affirmation, the opposite of abuse and humiliation, are the foundation of love. No one can rightfully claim to be loving when behaving abusively.

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

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.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.