There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.

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

If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life, which is that I’m a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it. But where I stand spiritually is, steadfastly, on a path about love.

Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.

. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

Being oppressed means the absence of choices

Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.