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

I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

To teach in a manner that respects and cares for the souls of our students is essential if we are to provide the necessary conditions where learning can most deeply and intimately begin.

Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.

Our hearts connect with lots of folks in a lifetime but most of us will go to our graves with no experience of true love.