When we concentrate on photography, we make it possible to see the walls of photographs in black homes as a critical intervention, a disruption of white control over black images.

Dare to look at the intersectionalities.

All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.

There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.

We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.

Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.