Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

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.

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

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.