Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

Without justice there can be no love.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

The time has come to tell the truth. Again. There is no love without justice. Men and women who cannot be just deny themselves and everyone they choose to be intimate with the freedom to know mutual love. If we remain unable to imagine a world where love can be recognized as a unifying principle that can lead us to seek and use power wisely, then we will remain wedded to a culture of domination that requires us to choose power over love.

They wanted black women to conform to the gender norms set by white society. They wanted to be recognized as 'men,' as patriarchs, by other men, including white men. Yet they could not assume this position if black women were not willing to conform to prevailing sexist gender norms. Many black women who has endured white-supremacist patriarchal domination during slavery did not want to be dominated by black men after manumission.