Reviewing the literature on love I noticed how few writers, male or female, talk about the impact of patriarchy, the way in which male domination of women and children stands in the ways of love.

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment.

When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images.

Wars make people rich - and they make a lot of people poor, and they take a lot of people's lives away from them.

Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.