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

Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind.

When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love