It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.

... we need to interrogate "reverence," for idolization can be another way one is objectified and not really taken seriously.

The classroom, with all its limitations, remains a location of possibility. In that field of possibility we have the opportunity to labor for freedom, to demand of ourselves and our comrades, an openness of mind and heart that allows us to face reality even as we collectively imagine ways to move beyond boundaries, to transgress. This is education as the practice of freedom.

I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.

Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

Dominator culture has tried to keep us all afraid, to make us choose safety instead of risk, sameness instead of diversity. Moving through that fear, finding out what connects us, revelling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.