When we face pain in relationships our first response is often to sever bonds rather than to maintain commitment.

I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.

I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

If only one party in the relationship is working to create love, to create the space of emotional connection, the dominator model remains in place and the relationship just becomes a site for continuous power struggle.

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