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

schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us.

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

My idea of a delicious time is to read a book that is wonderful. But the ruling passion of my life is being a seeker after truth and the divine.

If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.