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

Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.

To me, a woman can't be a feminist just because she is a woman. She is a feminist because she begins to divest herself of sexist ways of thinking and revolutionizes her consciousness.

I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out. Others are in prison. But in many cases they practice the teachings much better than those who meet me every day.

Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.