I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

If your skin is crawling, pay attention. If something doesn’t feel right, pay attention. If the hairs on the back of your neck prickle, if your gut clenches up, if a wave of wrongness washes over you, if your heart starts beating faster, pay, pay, pay attention. Do not second-guess yourself or rationalize anything that impedes your safety. Our instincts are the animal inside of our humanness, warning us of danger.

Loving, knowing, and respecting our bodies is a powerful and invincible act of rebellion in this society.

Abuse is the means in which violence retards love.

Women of color have no call to trust white women until white women take a gander at the world around them, investigate, learn and annihilate ignorance founded in being white in a society where the perspective and voice presented to the general public is white.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.