Living simply makes loving simple.

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."

I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

Right now, for many Americans, class is being foregrounded like never before because of the economic situation. It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter, or gender doesn't matter, but it means that right now in many people's lives, in the lives of my own family members, people are losing jobs, insurance.

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think they're beautiful or not. That space on the Internet allows you to converse with somebody with none of those things involved.