Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They have stood in place so long that they are afraid to move. They fear change. They fear losing what little they have.

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.

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

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.