I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

It is crucial for the future of the Black liberation struggle that we remain ever mindful that ours is a shared struggle, that we are each other's fate.

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism.

Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.

We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this reality and long for the safety and familiarity of sameness, inclusive ways of knowing and living offer us the only true way to emancipate ourselves from the divisions that limit our minds and imaginations.