My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.

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.

It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.

Feminism as a political movement has to specifically address the needs of men in their struggle to revolutionize their consciousness.

Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love

The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able to move out of yourself and be with someone else in a manner that is not about your desire to possess them, but to be with them, to be in union and communion.

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.