I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

For black folks, the camera provided a means to document a reality that could, if necessary, be packed, stored, moved from place to place... [Photography] offered a way to contain memories, to overcome loss, to keep history.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

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

Within the new self-help books for women, patriarachy and male domination are rarely identified as forces that lead to the oppression, exploitation, and domination of women. Instead, these books suggest that individual relationships between men and women can be changed solely by women making the right choices.

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.