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I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.
The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.
Black women control the world. We are through being discriminated against.
Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries.
Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression.
A good teacher is someone who can help you to get back to a teacher within.
Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.
Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.
. . . no Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.
My work is mostly influenced by the concrete circumstances of our daily lives.
Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.
Clearly, commitment is a necessary component for creating loving relationships.
The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.
Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.
To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
All my life I have longed to have a loving relationship that would last a lifetime.
The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.
I think life experiences are different for people who know what they want as children.
Intersectionality allow us to focus on what is most important at a given point in time.
Love is first and foremost exemplified by action - by practice - not solely by feeling.
All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.
I think we have to choose, what are the issues that really matter? We have to trust that.
Remember, care is a dimension of love, but simply giving care does not mean we are loving.
Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love
Whenever women struggle with breast cancer and face better care than ever, that's feminism.
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.
If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.
I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love.
Even when people capitalize my name, I don't freak out, even though that would not be my choice.
True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.
I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply.
Until the legacy of remembered and reenacted trauma is taken seriously, black America cannot heal.
I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.
Both men and women remain in dysfunctional, loveless relationships when it is materially opportune.
Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.
I think we have to talk about educating the people for critical consciousness about what anarchy is.
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
When men and women punish each other for truth telling, we reinforce the notion that lies are better.
I would also say that, in practice, many more Americans are anarchists than would ever use that term.
Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition.
White women and black men have it both ways. They can act as oppressor or ... and oppression of others.
I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.
If we give our children sound self-love, they will be able to deal with whatever life puts before them.
When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.
I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.
To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.
I think stress is anything going on in our lives that impinges on our capacity to have optimum well being.
I think the number one thing Black women and all Black people should be paying attention to is our health.