Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.

A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.

I think it's crazy for us to think that people don't understand what's being foregrounded in their lives at a given point in time.

Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural identity and be “just humans” within the framework of white supremacy has usually meant that subordinate groups must surrender their identities, beliefs, values, and assimilate by adopting the values and beliefs of privileged-class whites, rather than promoting racial harmony this thinking has created a fierce cultural protectionism.

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.