Representation is a crucial location of struggle for any exploited and oppressed people asserting subjectivity and decolonization of the mind.

The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.

If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.

Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.