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I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.
Patriarchy has no gender.
feminism is for everybody
Living simply makes loving simple.
there is no politically neutral art.
Without justice there can be no love.
Language is also a place of struggle.
It is poetry that changes everything.
Dare to look at the intersectionalities.
Love is an action, never simply a feeling.
Live simply so that others may simply live.
Being oppressed means the absence of choices
I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.
I don't have issues around how I'm identified.
What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.
Whenever domination is present, love is lacking.
I told my parents when I was 12 I'd be a writer.
Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.
There is light in darkness, you just have to find it.
Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire.
I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.
Class is more than money. Class is also about knowledge.
Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.
All the men I fall for seem to have a commitment problem.
... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.
If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.
Couples who rarely or never have sex can know lifelong love.
..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.
Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.
Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.
I love my family, even as I critique their dysfunctionalities.
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom.
Our freedom is sweet. It will be sweeter when we are all free.
The greater our commitment, the more likely our love will last.
Any society based on domination supports and condones violence.
Let's face it, war in its essence is another form of capitalism.
The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.
Changing how we see images is clearly one way to change the world.
If anything I think postmodernism has the least impact on my work.
America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.
The people I love, I'm committed to loving for the rest of my life.
We have to look at the substance of something rather than the shadow.
It really fascinates me what white people are allowed to write about.
Honesty and openness is always the foundation of insightful dialogue.
Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.
All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.
In a culture of domination, preoccupation with victimage is inevitable.
The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.
What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.
People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities.
