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

Whether we're talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it's where the learning is.

What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.

All efforts at self-transformation challenge us to engage in on-going, critical self-examination and reflection about feminist practice, and about how we live in the world. This individual commitment, when coupled with engagement in collective discussion, provides a space for critical feedback which strengthens our efforts to change and make ourselves anew.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.

The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.