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.
Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.
I believe that it is impossible for two individuals not committed to their own and each other’s well being to sustain a healthy and enduring relationship.
Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...
Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
Without justice there can be no love.
Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.
Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.
Sadly, children’s passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only.
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.