Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

If you're in a domestic situation where the man is violent, patriarchy and male domination - even though you understand it intersectionally - you focus, you highlight that dimension of it, if that's what is needed to change the situation.

I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy.

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.