Justice is possible without equality, I believe, because of compassion and understanding. If I have compassion, then if I have more than you, which is unequal, I will still do the just thing by you.

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can easily become the place where revolutionary feminist thought and feminist activism are submerged or made secondary to the goals of academic careerism

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.

Writing and the hope of writing pulls me back from the edges of despair. I believe insanity and despair are at times one and the same.