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.
When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.
It’s in the act of having to do things that you don’t want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library...
While it has become “cool” for white folks to hang out with black people and express pleasure in black culture, most white people do not feel that this pleasure should be linked to unlearning racism.
I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.