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

I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time.

Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.

... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

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

Patriarchy has no gender.