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.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.

Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know.

Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.