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

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

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

If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life, which is that I’m a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it. But where I stand spiritually is, steadfastly, on a path about love.

We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.

Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static.