Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

Is it more important that you, as a white male, read my work and learn from it, or what you call me? I think it's more important that you read my work, reflect on it, and allow it to transform your life and your thinking in some way.

Assumptions that racism is more oppressive to black men than black women, then and now ... based on acceptance of patriarchal notions of masculinity.

... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.