Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

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

I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.

Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.

We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.