Since loving is about knowing, we have more meaningful love relationships when we know each other and it takes time to know each other.

I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.

But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

Usually, when people talk about the "strength" of black women . . . . they ignore the reality that to be strong in the face of oppression is not the same as overcoming oppression, that endurance is not to be confused with transformation.

I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.

Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.