Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

The white worker who has been displaced at General Motors has more in common with the displaced black worker than those larger white CEO's, and those Wall Street people who are determining their fate... whose thievery and greed is determining their fate.

It is important and vital is to keep that education for critical consciousness around intersectionalities, so that people are able to not focus on one thing and blame one group, but be able to look holistically at the way intersectionality informs all of us: whiteness, gender, sexual preferences, etc. Only then can we have a realistic handle on the political and cultural world we live within.

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

You are not going to destroy this imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it.

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.