Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.

My students tell me, we don't want to love! We're tired of being loving! And I say to them, if you're tired of being loving, then you haven't really been loving, because when you are loving you have more strength.

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.

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

One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

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.

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.