Teaching Black Studies, I find that students are quick to label a black person who has grown up in a predominantly white setting and attended similar schools as "not black enough." ...Our concept of black experience has been too narrow and constricting.

When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

there is no politically neutral art.

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

My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.

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

The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.