Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

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."

When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.

I feel that I have many real students whom I have not met. Many are in cloisters and they never get out. Others are in prison. But in many cases they practice the teachings much better than those who meet me every day.

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.