Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.
There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.
If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.
We have to constantly critique imperialist white supremacist patriarchal culture because it is normalized by mass media and rendered unproblematic.
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.
To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients – care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.
Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
Living simply makes loving simple.
Feminism is the struggle to end sexist oppression. Its aim is not to benefit solely any specific group of women, any particular race or class of women. It does not privilege women over men. It has the power to transform meaningfully all our lives.
Commitment to truth telling lays the groundwork for the openness and honesty that is the heartbeat of love.
The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.
But love is really more of an interactive process. It’s about what we do not just what we feel. It’s a verb, not a noun.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
Being oppressed means the absence of choices.
As more people of color raise our consciousness and refuse to be pitted against one another, the forces of neo-colonial white supremacist domination must work harder to divide and conquer.
Choosing to be honest is the first step in the process of love. There is no practitioner of love who deceives. Once the choice has been made to be honest, then the next step on love’s path is communication.
All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.
We don’t hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they’re not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.
The most basic activism we can have in our lives is to live consciously in a nation living in fantasies. Living consciously is living with a core of healthy self-esteem. You will face reality, you will not delude yourself.