Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.
Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.
When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo.
Honesty and openness are always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
Whether we’re talking about race or gender or class, popular culture is where the pedagogy is, it’s where the learning is.
Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
To begin by always thinking of love as an action rather than a feeling is one way in which anyone using the word in this manner automatically assumes accountability and responsibility.
Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we’re in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment.
You must have courage to love, you have to have a profound will to do what is right to love, and it does not come easy.
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the hedonistic pleasures that pull on us.