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

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

as females in a patriarchal culture, we were not slaves of love; most of us were and are slaves of longing-- yearning for a master who will set us free and claim us because we cannot claim ourselves

I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism.

All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom.

If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.

Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.